Maine · Private foundation
Max Kagan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $197k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 91
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Max Kagan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 | 74 | $196k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 84 | $310k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $200k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $251k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $238k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $274k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $163k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $175k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rewild | $82,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Riding to the Top | $78,250 | 7 | 5% |
| Patient Airlift Services Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $53,210 | 9 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $46,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Artis-Naples Inc | $43,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Androscoggin Humane Society | $37,575 | 8 | 1% |
| Brooke USA Inc | $34,950 | 7 | 1% |
| The Susan L Curtis Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 3% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 138 recipients with no EIN on record ($773k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Max Kagan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Max Kagan Family Foundation
- How much does Max Kagan Family Foundation give?
- Max Kagan Family Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $196,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Max Kagan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Animals (11%), International (11%).
- Who are Max Kagan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rewild ($83k), Riding to the Top ($78k), Patient Airlift Services Inc ($60k).
- Does Max Kagan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Max Kagan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Max Kagan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson.
- Where is Max Kagan Family Foundation based?
- Max Kagan Family Foundation is based in ME.
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