West Virginia · Private foundation
Maier Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Maier Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $2.5M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $2.3M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $2.4M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $2.4M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $2.0M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall University Foundation Incorporated | $4,169,200 | 6 | 3% |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $2,265,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The University of Charleston Inc | $1,608,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc | $1,231,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Wv Emulation Endowment Trust | $748,000 | 4 | 51% |
| West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc | $434,000 | 6 | 3% |
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | $380,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Concord University Foundation Inc | $330,000 | 6 | 3% |
| West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute Inc | $173,550 | 3 | 6% |
| Glenville State University Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Maier Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Tgkvf Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Fund for the Arts · Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr · Herscher Foundation Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation
How this is measured
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About Maier Foundation Inc
- How much does Maier Foundation Inc give?
- Maier Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $2,482,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Maier Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (2%).
- Who are Maier Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Marshall University Foundation Incorporated ($4.2M), West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($2.3M), The University of Charleston Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Maier Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maier Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maier Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc, Encova Foundation of West Virginia.
- Where is Maier Foundation Inc based?
- Maier Foundation Inc is based in WV.
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