Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Maria Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Maria Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 18 | $130k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $114k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $122k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $141k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $116k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $104k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $133k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $125k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Carey School | $174,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Curiodyssey | $86,750 | 7 | 0% |
| American Brownstone Institute | $53,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bucknell University | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $42,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc | $40,814 | 7 | 0% |
| Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research | $39,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Independent Medical Alliance | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Commoncrawl Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Matthews Episcopal Day School | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($291k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maria 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: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Maria Foundation
- How much does Maria Foundation give?
- Maria Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $129,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Maria Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Health (16%), Science & Tech (12%).
- Who are Maria Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Carey School ($174k), Curiodyssey ($87k), American Brownstone Institute ($53k).
- Does Maria Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maria Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maria Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, McKesson Foundation Inc.
- Where is Maria Foundation based?
- Maria Foundation is based in PA.
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