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Max Kagan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$314k
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$322kAnimals$205kInternational$200kArts & Culture$187kReligion$143kHuman Services$131kPhilanthropy$107kEducation$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k72 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $149k
$2,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$20,000
BROOKE USA$13,750
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH$12,500
PALSSKYHOPE$11,250
STANDWITHUS$11,000
FOUNDATION NONDUALIT$10,465
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALA$10,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENTS INC$10,000
MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM$10,000
ISRAEL (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AID INC$10,000
ISRAEL-AMERICAN COUNCIL (IAC)$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBU$10,000
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$9,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$8,200
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 (FY17–24, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROOKFIELD INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%LIGHTS ON THE MOUNTAIN: $4k → 15%CAMP CAPELLA: $1k → 11%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $20k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUINTY SERVICES: $600 → 14%LIGHTS ON THE MOUNTAIN: $2k → 15%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $600 → 8%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $10k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $10k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $10k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $10k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 7%HOUSEHOLD GOODS: $750 → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $4k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $4k → 8%ACTION INC: $4k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $3k → 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $2k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $1k → 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 10%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%RIDING TO THE TOP: $28k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $23k → 7%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%RIDING TO THE TOP: $10k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $5k → 7%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 10%RIDING TO THE TOP: $5k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $3k → 7%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $850 → 10%ACTION INC: $750 → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
ND
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 115 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

115 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
90

Total granted

$1.6M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+12%

Still filing today

59%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • REWILD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +550%
  • RT
    RIDING TO THE TOP
    6× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +207%
  • PA
    PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
  • FF
    FDN FOR NON QUALITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Light on the Mountain Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Addiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development ServicesCancer Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Elementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyPublic Library OperationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/138
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,427

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.

04the grantee network

129 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. 129 of the 248 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/129
Grantees still filing
90/129
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE — $69,650 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCECAMP SUSAN CURTIS FOUNDATION — $62,900 · OtherCAMP SUSAN CURTIS FOUNDATIONIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY — $51,000 · OtherNEVE MICHAEL CHILDREN'S VILLAGE — $49,800 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHALOM — $34,600 · Other+134 more — $752,112 · Other+134 moreRIDING TO THE TOP — $73,250 · Human ServicesRIDING TO TH…PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRL…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…ACTION INC — $9,750 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC — $9,050 · Human ServicesFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $9,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE INC — $8,550 · Human ServicesBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $8,500 · Human Services+8 more — $12,050 · Human Services+8 morePRO PUBLICA INC — $46,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLIC…ARTIS-NAPLES INC — $38,500 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPL…THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $27,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HOLOCA…TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $13,500 · Arts & CultureTREE OF LI…HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER — $12,400 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST …GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE …FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF…Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $7,400 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $11,400 · Arts & Culture+3 moreREWILD — $82,700 · AnimalsREWILDGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $37,575 · AnimalsGREATER A…BROOKE USA INC — $31,950 · AnimalsBROOKE US…ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $7,650 · Animals+3 more — $5,975 · AnimalsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $47,710 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $19,250 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR NONDUALITY INC — $16,500 · HealthTRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $13,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 · HealthRobbie Foundation — $7,500 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $6,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,650 · Health+2 more — $4,750 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $37,550 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $12,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $11,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · InternationalTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC — $6,400 · International+3 more — $4,200 · InternationalPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $30,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $16,500 · EducationGROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC — $7,000 · EducationTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC — $3,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $3,000 · Education+3 more — $4,900 · Education
Other$1,020,062Human Services$213,150Arts & Culture$178,700Animals$165,850Health$130,860International$106,650Education$64,400

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREWILD — $82,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP — $73,250 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $47,710 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $46,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC — $38,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $37,575 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $37,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKE USA INC — $31,950 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $30,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $27,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC — $27,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $23,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $21,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $19,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR NONDUALITY INC — $16,500 over 4y, 63% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $13,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Concepts Inc — $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD — $13,225 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER — $12,400 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION INC — $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE RESCUE NETWORK — $9,600 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC — $9,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $9,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC — $8,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $7,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRobbie Foundation — $7,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $7,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $7,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC — $7,000 over 5y, 1.0% 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 REWILD ↗
  • Who funds RIDING TO THE TOP ↗
  • Who funds PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR NONDUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds STARABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…Boston Foundation IncStephen & Tabitha Kin…Combined Jewish Phila…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine Health Access F…The Jebediah Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…
Maine Community Foundation IncME38.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Kagan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
  • Latham Centers Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
  • The Brookfield Institute Inc dba HomeFront Strong — 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Action Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Max Kagan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Max Kagan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 248 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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