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Maurer Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$485k
Granted FY2022
17
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Religion$220kAnimals$89kHealth$49kArts & Culture$43kHuman Services$15kInternational$8kEducation$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2022 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY BETH SHALOM$200,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ISRAELIS CHILDREN CANCER FDN$40,000
CHIMP HAVEN$38,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
BOWERS MUSEUM$25,000
CENTER FOR GREAT APES$18,000
SPOKANE HUMANE SOCIETY$15,000
HERITAGE POINTE$15,000
PACIFIC SYMPHONY$10,000
SPOKANIMAL$10,000
PARTNERING FOR PROGRESS$8,000
DEDICATED ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP$8,000
MF FRIENDS OF THE ARTS$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,022
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $15k → 10%TRANSITIONS: $600 → 12%TRANSITIONS: $300 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$229k · 8 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$229k
$9k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • VB
    VALLEY BETH SHALOM
    2× · 2017–2022 · $205k
  • AH
    AISH HATORAH
    3× · 2017–2021 · $11k
  • OC
    OTHER CHARITIES
    3× · 2017–2021 · $6k

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY SHUL
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
2
Holocaust Center for Humanity

The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.

3
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
4
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
5
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
6
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
7
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
8
Sozo Impact Inc

SOZO is an international contemporary arts agency and incubator at the intersection of impact, innovation, and culture, empowering transformative artistic innovation and social change.

Arts & Culture
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

11
Biocom California

Accelerating life science success.

12
Historical Society of Seattle & King County dba Museum of History & Industry

Collect and preserve the diverse history of Seattle, the Puget Sound region and beyond. Highlighting innovation and education, MOHAI enriches lives by sharing the individual and collective stories of our communities.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Home for the Aging of Orange County and the most unlike its peers is Israel Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALLEY BETH SHALOM — $205,286 · OtherVALLEY BETH SHALOMIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+17 more — $47,393 · Other+17 moreCHIMP HAVEN INC — $38,000 · AnimalsCHIMP HAVEN INCCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $18,000 · AnimalsCenter for Orangu…Spokane Humane Society — $15,000 · AnimalsSpokane Humane So…SPOKANIMAL CARE — $10,000 · AnimalsSPOKANIMAL CAREISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Symphony — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY — $15,000 · Human ServicesTransitions — $900 · Human ServicesPARTNERING FOR PROGRESS — $8,000 · InternationalBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $3,510 · PhilanthropyKEREN OR INC — $150 · Education
Other$337,679Animals$81,000Health$40,250Arts & Culture$37,000Human Services$15,900International$8,000Philanthropy$3,510Education$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpokane Humane Society — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPOKANIMAL CARE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Symphony — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERING FOR PROGRESS — $8,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $3,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS ORANGE COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Art Education Association — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTransitions — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN OR INC — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 ISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC
  • Who funds CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION
  • Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
  • Who funds Spokane Humane Society
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY
  • Who funds SPOKANIMAL CARE
  • Who funds Pacific Symphony
  • Who funds PARTNERING FOR PROGRESS
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds ARTS ORANGE COUNTY
  • Who funds California Art Education Association
  • Who funds Transitions
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds KEREN OR 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.

Network for GoodDC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Maurer Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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