· Private foundation
Maria Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CURIODYSSEY | $15,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $10,000 |
| INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| COMMONCRAWL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION INC | $4,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA | $2,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +50% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CAREY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $174k · revenue +100%
- CCURIODYSSEY7× · 2019–2025 · $87k · revenue +3%
- ABAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE4× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL OFone grant, 2023 · $20k
- FCFREEDOM COUNSELone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ABAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +58%
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 organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
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.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 56 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 CAREY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Commoncrawl Foundation ↗
- Who funds California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIMARILY PRIMATES INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Breast Cancer Emergency Fund ↗
- Who funds The Gorilla Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maria Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maria Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
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