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Maplewood Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$625k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.1MReligion$1.2MCommunity Improvement$770kArts & Culture$150kHealth$30k
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST$500,000
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION$125,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION: $125k → 6%St Edmund's Academy: $1.0M → 11%CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $250k → 17%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 32%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION: $125k → 6%The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh: $100k → 11%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION: $125k → 6%East Liberty Development Inc: $400k → 11%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION: $125k → 6%CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $300k → 11%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION: $125k → 6%East Liberty Presbyterian Church: $300k → 11%East Liberty Development Inc: $250k → 11%ELLIS SCHOOL: $200k → 11%CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $150k → 11%East Liberty Development Inc: $120k → 11%CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $116k → 11%ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $500k → 11%ALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOC: $150k → 11%SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%The Chapter of Trinity Cathedral Church: $130k → 11%First Lutheran Church: $50k → 11%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.
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 3 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +900% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$2.0M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+900%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • EL
    East Liberty Development Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $770k · revenue -64%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
    5× · 2022–2026 · $625k
  • CA
    CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2025 · $566k · revenue +900%

Funded once

  • SE
    ST EDMUND'S ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • EL
    East Liberty Presbyterian Church
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • CE
    CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
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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3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
5
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
6
Emblaze Academy Charter School

Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…

Education
7
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
8
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
9
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Valley Day School

Valley day school is a private, non-profit, state-funded, special education school licensed by the pennsylvania department of education for students who are experiencing learning and/or adjustment difficulties.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allegheny Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $1,000,000 · OtherST EDMUND'S ACADEMYCHURCH OF THE ASCENSION: $625,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE ASCENSIONEast Liberty Presbyterian Church: $300,000 · OtherEast Liberty Presbyterian ChurchCALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $250,000 · OtherCALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe Chapter of Trinity Cathedral Church: $130,000 · OtherThe Chapter of Trinity Cathedral Church+1 more: $50,000 · OtherCATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $566,073 · EducationCATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER …Tuskegee University: $225,000 · EducationTuskegee UniversityTHE ELLIS SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationTHE ELLIS SCHOOLTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE …East Liberty Development Inc: $770,000 · Community ImprovementEast Liberty Deve…ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $500,000 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY L…ALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health
Other$2,355,000Education$1,091,073Community Improvement$770,000Environment$500,000Arts & Culture$150,000Health$30,000

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 budgetST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEast Liberty Development Inc: $770,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $566,073 over 3y, 18% of budgetTuskegee University: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELLIS SCHOOL: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Nimick Forbesway Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Nimick Forbesway Foundation · 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 Maplewood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maplewood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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 · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Maplewood Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Maplewood Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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