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Maxi Fuxjager Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%FIRST STEP: $10k → 9%CHILDREN FIRST: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • GS
    GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -20%
  • UD
    Utah Dine Bikeyah
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -65%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INCUtah Dine Bikeyah: $35,000 · EnvironmentUtah Dine BikeyahFriends 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetECPAT-USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

PatagoniaorgNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maxi Fuxjager Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxi Fuxjager Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Children First Inc: 100% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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