Colorado · Private foundation
Maki Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $237k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Maki Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 51 | $237k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $229k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $204k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $231k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $229k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $233k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $205k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $196k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy & Conservation Law | $50,000 | 9 | 8% |
| High Country Conservation Advocates | $48,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Aspen Journalism | $47,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Western Mining Action Project Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 2% |
| New Mexico Environmental Law Center | $42,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Western Environmental Law Center | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wilderness Workshop | $39,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Wild Connections Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Western Colorado Alliance | $38,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Montana Environmental Information Center | $38,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maki Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Patagoniaorg · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · The Wilderness Society · Western Conservation Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Forest Foundation · The Wolcott Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Conservation Lands Foundation
How this is measured
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About Maki Foundation
- How much does Maki Foundation give?
- Maki Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $236,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Maki Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (80%), Animals (8%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are Maki Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Energy & Conservation Law ($50k), High Country Conservation Advocates ($48k), Aspen Journalism ($47k).
- Does Maki Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maki Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maki Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The New-Land Foundation Inc, Resources Legacy Fund.
- Where is Maki Foundation based?
- Maki Foundation is based in CO.
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