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Maxon 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $10,500 |
| ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $3,500 |
| BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYS | $3,500 |
| WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $1,500 |
| WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS & HEALING | $1,000 |
| ST PATRICKS EPSICOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WASHINGTON WINTER SHOW | $650 |
| ST JOHN'S CHURCH | $500 |
| METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PALISADES VILLAGE | $400 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | $250 |
| POTOMAC SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND | $200 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +63%
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +49%- WHWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +331%
Funded once
- SJST JULIAN'S EPISCOPAL PRESCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k
- TPTHE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -32%
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $150
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.
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.
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MUNCIE AND DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washington Winter Show Inc ↗
- Who funds Palisades Village ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Corcoran Womens Committee ↗
- Who funds AVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Porter Family Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maxon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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