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Maher Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Maher Charitable Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$975k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$3.1MEducation$1.8MEmployment$365kYouth Development$355kPublic Safety & Disaster$315kPhilanthropy$268kCivil Rights$200kCrime & Legal$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $333k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Clinton Hill Community Action$975,000
Rutgers University Foundation$320,166
Institute for Citizens and Scholars$250,000
NJ Chamber of Commerce Foundation$100,000
Advocates For Children of NJ$100,000
Community Foundation of New Jersey$82,772
Newark Alliance$50,000
Far Brook School$44,300
William Paterson U Found$40,000
Teachers College Columbia U$29,728
Council of NJ Grantmakers$25,000
New Jersey Future$7,500
Third Sector New England$7,500
NJ EarlyEd Infrastructure Alliance$20
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 (FY20–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Childrens Day Nursery & Family Center: $1k → 12%Clinton Hill Community and Early Ch: $30k → 16%La Casa De Don Pedro: $10k → 16%La Casa De Don Pedro: $5k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 19 repeat orgs$735k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$7.5M
$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+2%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CH
    CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +637% · 60% of their budget
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $465k · revenue +188%
  • FB
    FAR BROOK SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $298k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • NC
    Newark Community Street Team Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +2%
  • GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue +23%
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
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit
2
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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3
New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
New Jersey Food Council Inc

To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.

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8
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc

New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.

Human Services
9
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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10
Njcpa Scholarship Fund

The mission of the scholarship fund is to attract the best and the brightest of new jersey students and residents into the accounting profession and to support attaining the certified public accountant designation.

—
11
Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

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12
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Math for America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2,662,740 · OtherCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,151,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $465,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARSCommunity Foundation of NJ: $445,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of NJAdvocates for Children of NJ: $440,000 · OtherAdvocates for Children of NJFAR BROOK SCHOOL: $297,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherNJ Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $250,000 · Other+12 more: $512,748 · Other+12 moreRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $915,666 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVE…CIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $50,000 · EducationMATH FOR AMERICA: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $1,200 · EducationNEW JERSEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $27,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $187,772 · PhilanthropyNewark Alliance INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNewark Community Street Team Inc: $150,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $112,100 · EnvironmentBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY AND EARLY CHILDHO: $30,000 · Human ServicesLa Casa De Don Pedro Inc: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$6,474,038Education$1,016,866Community Improvement$297,500Philanthropy$237,772Crime & Legal$150,000Environment$112,100Public Benefit$50,000Human Services$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2,662,740 over 5y, 60% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $915,666 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $465,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFAR BROOK SCHOOL: $297,550 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $187,772 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $160,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNewark Community Street Team Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $112,100 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR PARENTS INC: $100,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNewark Alliance INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMATH FOR AMERICA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY AND EARLY CHILDHO: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLa Casa De Don Pedro Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY FUTURE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Day Nursery and Family Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Victoria Foundation I…The Prudential Founda…Pseg Foundation IncSouth Ward AllianceSchumann Fund for New…Turrell FundGeraldine R Dodge Fou…The Healthcare Founda…United Way of Essex &…Devils Youth Foundati…Columbia Bank Foundat…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · South Ward Alliance · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Turrell Fund · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark · Devils Youth Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank 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 Maher Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maher Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Programs for Parents Inc: 92% of income from government
  • La Casa De Don Pedro Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Newark Community Street Team Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community and Early Childho: 22% of income from government
  • New Jersey Future Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Newark Alliance Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Maher Charitable Foundation 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 35 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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