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Maples 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$1.7MReligion$482kYouth Development$150kRecreation & Sports$133kInternational$50kFood & Nutrition$50kArts & Culture$36kHealth$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIOLA UNIVERSITY$1,015,000
Mariners Church$113,000
City to City Los Angeles$20,000
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Ventureorg: $10k → 6%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%Nelson Family Foundation: $3k → 9%Jobita Ahrens: $9k → 10%California Homebuilding Foundation: $13k → 12%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 14%HUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS: $101k → 19%Amber Waves Farm: $50k → 7%American Foundation for Suicide Pre: $1k → 17%URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE: $20k → 28%YWAM - Youth with a Mission: $100k → 5%THE GATHERING: $30k → 12%Grace Fellowship: $200 → 13%CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $40k → 14%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%Mariners Church: $113k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $200k → 14%HUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS: $30k → 19%Jewish Agency for Israel: $5k → 17%URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE: $15k → 28%THE GATHERING: $6k → 12%Grace Fellowship: $150 → 13%CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $30k → 14%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%Mariners Church: $103k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%HUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS: $1k → 19%URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE: $15k → 28%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%Mariners Church: $100k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%HUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS: $530 → 19%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 9%Mariners Church: $100k → 10%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 9%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $66k → 14%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%City to City Los Angeles: $20k → 14%City to City Los Angeles: $20k → 14%City to City Los Angeles: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 10 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$2.4M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BU
    BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +15%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY
    2× · 2018–2020 · $70k · revenue +21%
  • CT
    CITY TO CITY SOCAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • YY
    YWAM - Youth with a Mission
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AW
    AMBER WAVES FARM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • CH
    California Homebuilding Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hope International University

The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…

Education
2
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
3
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
His University

His university provides graduate and undergraduate degree and diploma education and training for his family ministry specialists who desire to pursue careers in counseling and ministry.

Education
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
8
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
9
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
10
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
11
Point Loma Nazarene University

Point loma nazarene university exists to provide higher education in a vital christian community where minds are engaged and challenged, character is modeled and formed, and service becomes an expression of faith. we aspire to be a…

Education
12
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Gathering and the most unlike its peers is Nelson Family 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $1,601,168 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INCCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY — $70,000 · Education+1 more — $12,500 · EducationMARINERS CHURCH — $416,168 · OtherMARINERS CHURCHHUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS INC — $132,830 · OtherHUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS INCYWAM - Youth with a Mission — $100,000 · OtherYWAM - Youth with a MissionURBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE — $50,000 · OtherURBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE+14 more — $46,012 · Other+14 moreCITY TO CITY SOCAL — $60,000 · PhilanthropyNELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,700 · PhilanthropyAMBER WAVES FARM INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · InternationalTHE GATHERING — $36,316 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,683,668Other$745,010Philanthropy$62,700Food & Nutrition$50,000International$50,000Arts & Culture$36,316

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $1,601,168 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY TO CITY SOCAL — $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING — $36,316 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCalifornia Homebuilding Foundation — $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY
  • Who funds CITY TO CITY SOCAL
  • Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds THE GATHERING
  • Who funds California Homebuilding Foundation
  • Who funds NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Maples Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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