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Maher Family Foundation at a glance

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Maher Family 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.

$341k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$451kEducation$271kRecreation & Sports$246kInternational$40kSocial Science$30kCommunity Improvement$20kEnvironment$20kArts & Culture$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$100,000
PREP FOR PREP$97,300
US SKI & SNOWBOARD TEAM FOUNDATION$28,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS AND LEARNING$21,400
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$10,000
ROARING FORK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$10,000
PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY$10,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES$10,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$5,100
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$5,000
GAR FOUNDATION$5,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES$4,700
JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS$3,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$2,250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 14 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +152% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$550k
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+152%
+25%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WC
    WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +256%
  • PU
    PESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • RF
    Roaring Fork Schools Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • BC
    Boston College (Head Ski Coach Endowment Fund)
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M
  • FC
    Fidelity Charitable Giving
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • CC
    CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +60%
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
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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6
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
7
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
8
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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9
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
10
The Aspen Group

The aspen group is a non-partisan, by invitation only, healthcare forum. our members, with a track record of leadership in both the public and private sectors, share ideas, make recommendations, and serve as a resource to policy makers,…

Philanthropy
11
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School

Wyoming seminary inspires students to lead lives of integrity, purpose, and excellence by developing the critical skills and spirit of community necessary to succeed and serve in a global society.

Education
12
Ussa Investment Fund

Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gar Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boston College (Head Ski Coach Endowment Fund): $1,250,000 · OtherBoston College (Head Ski Coach Endowment Fund)Fidelity Charitable Giving: $250,000 · OtherFidelity Charitable GivingUS Ski & Snowboard Team Foundation: $169,000 · OtherUS Ski & Snowboard Team Foundation+16 more: $193,266 · Other+16 morePREP FOR PREP: $144,700 · EducationPREP FOR PREPCLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $100,000 · EducationCLASSICAL CHA…Roaring Fork Schools Foundation: $30,000 · EducationRoaring Fork …GORDON A RICH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,880 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementREBUILD METRO INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $60,100 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $28,000 · Recreation & SportsPESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Social ScienceASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $24,700 · Environment
Other$1,862,266Education$286,580Community Improvement$120,000Recreation & Sports$88,100Philanthropy$50,000Social Science$30,000Environment$24,700

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 budgetPREP FOR PREP: $144,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $60,100 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetPESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRoaring Fork Schools Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $28,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $24,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILD METRO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGORDON A RICH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN HOPE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CONNEC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $1,880 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Maher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Down Syndrome Association of Connec: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 31 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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