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Maier Family Foundation at a glance

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Maier Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$350kEducation$86kHuman Services$79kCommunity Improvement$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kArts & Culture$19kReligion$16kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$17,239
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$17,239
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 (FY17–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%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

PA
KY
VA
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$519k · 8 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$519k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+24%

Still filing today

63%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $350k · revenue ×103
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +46%
  • PC
    PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +107%
  • SC
    STERLING COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • FC
    FREEDOM COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue ×11
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
Asbury College

Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…

Education
2
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
3
Cedarville University

Cedarville university transforms lives through excellent education and intentional discipleship in submission to biblical authority. the university achieves its mission by accomplishing portrait statements which reflect characteristics of…

Education
4
Calvary University

Calvary university is an independent non-denominational institution providing undergraduate and graduate education which prepares christians to live and serve in the church and the world according to a biblical worldview. this is…

—
5
Central Christian College of the Bible

Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.

Education
6
Christendom Educational Corporation

Provide a catholic liberal arts education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Education
7
Crowley's Ridge College

The college is a four year coeducational liberal arts college affiliated with the churches of christ

Education
8
Carolina Christian Academy

Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.

—
9
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.

Religion
10
Norfolk Christian Schools

It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.

Education
11
Freed-Hardeman University

Freed-hardeman university is a private school associated with churches of christ which emphasize physical and spiritual development of its students to prepare them for lives of service to their communities.

Education
12
Charlotte Country Day School

Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Christian School; the most unlike its peers is American Values. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $79,239 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $55,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientI AM: $6,000 · Other+2 more: $4,250 · OtherSTERLING COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $6,000 · EducationFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $25,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,000 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN VALUES: $2,000 · Arts & CultureADVENTURE RESOURCES: $16,000 · ReligionKEARSARGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$350,000Other$172,489Education$31,000Community Improvement$25,000Human Services$23,000Arts & Culture$19,000Religion$16,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,500

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 budgetCHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC: $17,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEARSARGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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