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Mae Philanthropies at a glance

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Mae Philanthropies

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$22MEducation$6.7MInternational$1.1MHuman Services$703kPhilanthropy$600kYouth Development$550kPublic Benefit$400kAnimals$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.0M
$250,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSEPARABLE INC$2,000,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISONSIN - CTR FOR HEALTHY MINDS$1,000,000
IMPACT ASSETS - YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CORPS$500,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$400,000
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION$400,000
HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$250,000
MINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC$250,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$250,000
MUTTVILLE$200,000
WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OURCALLING: $100k → 14%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $400k → 8%HEALTH IN THE HOOD: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of Mae Philanthropies’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mae Philanthropieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 5 repeat orgs$8.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$21M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+41%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20M · revenue +23%
  • CU
    CINCINNATI UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.0M
  • GM
    GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k

Funded once

  • KF
    KATIA FRANCESCONI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +41%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR PROSECUTORIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mindful Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $19,589,904 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION+3 more: $400,000 · PhilanthropyKATIA FRANCESCONI FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherKATIA FRANCESCONI…UNIVERSITY OF WISONSIN - CTR FOR HEALTHY MINDS: $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WIS…CINCINNATI UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherCINCINNATI UNIVER…IMPACT ASSETS - YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CORPS: $500,000 · OtherIMPACT ASSETS - Y…GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FUND: $200,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR PROSECUTORIAL ACCOUNTABILITY: $200,000 · Other+16 more: $1,185,500 · Other+16 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,600,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITU…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationInseparable Inc: $2,000,000 · HealthMINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC: $250,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $400,000 · Public BenefitMUTTVILLE: $200,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $100,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$19,989,904Other$5,085,500Education$4,525,000Health$2,275,000Human Services$520,000Public Benefit$400,000Animals$300,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $19,589,904 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,600,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInseparable Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $62,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mae Philanthropies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mae Philanthropies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Health in the Hood Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Mae Philanthropies?

Find your warmest path to Mae Philanthropies through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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