· Public charity
Max Cares Foundation Inc
Through innovative partnerships, programs, and special events, the max cares foundation embraces the opportunity to help those in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $133,235 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $279,539 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,304 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYSTATE HEALTH | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $12,500 |
| CAMP COURANT | $12,500 |
| GRACE ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| COVENANT PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| HANDS ON HARTFORD | $11,983 |
| HARTFORD HEALTHCARE | $10,000 |
| JOHNSON & WALES | $8,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT | $7,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION | $6,236 |
| SALVATION ARMY BRISTOL | $6,197 |
| CSO FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS | $5,819 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCAMP COURANT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +54%
- CLCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +38%
- CPCOVENANT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BHBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -59%
- TMTHE MAY INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
- HHHartford Hospitalgraduated2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…
The mission of hebrew home and hospital aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
To provide and promote wellness and independence to ensure optimal quality of life for the people we serve.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. mercy community health is a member of trinity health.
The mission of Natchaug Hospital is to provide a continuum of accessible, community-based services for those living with psychiatric illness and chemical dependency or emotional and related educational disabilities, with a commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Aurora Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford HealthCare Corporation ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTH INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MAY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds AURORA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINA'S HOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds iQuilt Partnership 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.
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable 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 Max Cares Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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