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Maxi Fuxjager Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$140kInternational$83kArts & Culture$53kCrime & Legal$20kYouth Development$10kCivil Rights$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lee and Bob Peterson Foundation DBA Sunshine from Darkness$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KINGSTON MODEL RAIL ROAD CLUB: $3k → 11%Kingston Model Rail Road Club: $50k → 16%KIDS IN SEATS: $2k → 17%EL PUENTE dE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $10k → 20%CHILDREN FIRST: $15k → 9%KS WILD: $35k → 13%GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALARTE PARTNERS: $35k → 9%FRIENDS OF GOLD BUTTE: $35k → 13%ECPAT-USA: $50k → 20%CHILDREN FIRST: $10k → 9%FIRST STEP: $10k → 9%First Step: $10k → 9%Children First: $8k → 9%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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$118k · 4 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$118k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
EnvironmentInternationalEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • KM
    KINGSTON MODEL RAILROAD CLUB INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $53k
  • Children First Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $33k · revenue +24%
  • FS
    FIRST STEP INCORPORATED
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +21% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • EI
    ECPAT-USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +279%
  • UD
    Utah Dine Bikeyah
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -65%
  • GS
    GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -25%

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
Great Basin Resource Watch

Natural resource protection: Protected communities and the environment from the negative impacts of mineral development; provided support to communities impacted by mining

Environment
2
Rio Bravo Restoration

Natural Resource Stewardship

Environment
3
Eagle Creek Nature Conservancy and Preservation Inc
Environment
4
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
5
Santa Fe Forest Coalition

Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico

Environment
6
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
7
Friends of the Pecos River
Environment
8
Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve

The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.

Environment
9
Pacific Coast Environmental Conservancy

Organization was able to support efforts for the protection and sustainability of the unique pacific coast environments

Environment
10
Primate Conservation Inc
Animals
11
Wild Spirit Education

Environmental education.

Health
12
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Utah Dine Bikeyah — $35,000 · EnvironmentUtah Dine BikeyahGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INCFriends of Gold Butte — $35,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Gold ButteBig Bend Conservation Alliance — $35,000 · EnvironmentBig Bend Conservation AllianceKINGSTON MODEL RAILROAD CLUB INC — $53,000 · OtherKINGSTON MODEL RAILROAD CLUB INCIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC — $10,000 · OtherEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INCECPAT-USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalECPAT-USA INCChildren First Inc — $32,500 · EducationChildren F…FIRST STEP INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Crime & LegalLEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$140,000Other$110,000International$50,000Education$32,500Crime & Legal$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetECPAT-USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah — $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBig Bend Conservation Alliance — $35,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetChildren First Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEP INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetLEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

PatagoniaorgCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Maxi Fuxjager 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 · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Children First Inc100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 12 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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