· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BOYSTOWN | $500 |
| HELLENIC COLLEGE | $500 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $300 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $300 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $258 |
| TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE | $256 |
| OMAHA ACADEMY OF BALLET | $252 |
| THEATER CEDAR RAPIDS | $250 |
| FONTENELLE FOREST | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marcus S & Catherine D Maydew Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcus S & Catherine D Maydew Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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