Wisconsin · Private foundation
Max Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $543k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Max Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | $85k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $47k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $44k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $33k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $37k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $43k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $30k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $32k | 55% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quasimondo Inc | $40,949 | 5 | 15% |
| Chabad of Downtown Ltd | $34,620 | 8 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Turners Inc | $20,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Live Oak Institute | $20,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Arsha-Vidya-Pitam | $16,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Youthaiti Inc | $12,875 | 3 | n/a |
| Optimist Theatre | $10,660 | 5 | 2% |
| Children's Home of Haiti Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Baja Community Foundation | $9,436 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of Givat Haviva | $7,550 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Max Fund Inc 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Performing Arts Fund Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Youth Foundation Inc · Briggs & Stratton Corporation Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Max Fund Inc
- How much does Max Fund Inc give?
- Max Fund Inc reported 19 grants totaling $85,479 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Max Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (25%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Max Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Quasimondo Inc ($41k), Chabad of Downtown Ltd ($35k), Milwaukee Turners Inc ($21k).
- Does Max Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Max Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Max Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc.
- Where is Max Fund Inc based?
- Max Fund Inc is based in WI.
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