· Private foundation
Marcus S & Catherine D Maydew Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT HAYES STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FND | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $515 |
| GOODFELLOWS | $500 |
| HELLENIC COLLEGE | $500 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| BOYSTOWN | $500 |
| COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $300 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $300 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $258 |
| TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE | $256 |
| OMAHA ACADEMY OF BALLET | $252 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| HOLY CROSS COLLEGE | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OCOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +44%
- FFFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +142%
- FFFONTENELLE FOREST5× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TTTCR - THEATER CEDAR RAPIDSone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $535
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
End hunger together.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farmhouse Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ACADEMY OF BALLET ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUMANITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · The Hawks Foundation · Paul and Oscar Giger Foundation Inc · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · The Claire M Hubbard 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 Marcus S & Catherine D Maydew 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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