· Private foundation
Maak Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| HARRY TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | $30,000 |
| CLINTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $10,000 |
| MERCERSBURG ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND | $3,000 |
| HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ | $3,000 |
| SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH ASPEN | $300 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWellesley College5× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +36%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC3× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +192%- SFSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AIASPEN INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $40k
- UIUS INSTITUTE OF PEACEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FIFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TRUMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds The Defiant Requiem Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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