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Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family 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.

$63k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$63k31%
FY20235$15k20%
FY202212$48kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$33kCommunity Improvement$26kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$13kEducation$10kEnvironment$10kYouth Development$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clark Coalition Foundation Inc$25,802316%
Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc$15,00030%
Clark County Community Services In$13,00030%
Clark County Association for Handic Citizens Inc$10,00021%
Winchester Council for the Artsinc Dba Leeds Center for the Arts$10,00022%
Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club$7,50021%
Bluegrass Heritage Museum Inc$7,50024%
Bluegrass Land Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
Rapha Ministries Inc$4,50025%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClark Coalition Foundation Inc: $25,802 over 3y, 16% of budgetCommonwealth Fund for Ket Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetClark County Community Services In: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetClark County Association for Handic Citizens Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWinchester Council for the Artsinc Dba Leeds Center for the Arts: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTom Browning Boys and Girls Club: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBluegrass Heritage Museum Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBluegrass Land Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRapha Ministries Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Blue Grass Community …John N Browning Famil…Clark Regional Medica…Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · Clark Regional Medical Center Auxillary Inc · 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.

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About Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation

How much does Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation give?
Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $62,991 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (15%), Community Improvement (12%), Health (7%).
Who are Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Clark Coalition Foundation Inc ($26k), Commonwealth Fund for Ket Inc ($15k), Clark County Community Services In ($13k).
Does Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US, Clark Regional Medical Center Auxillary Inc.
Where is Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation based?
Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation is based in KY.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $91k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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