Minnesota · Private foundation
Maxwell C Weaver Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Maxwell C Weaver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 18 | $90k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $129k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $223k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $162k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $170k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $221k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $201k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Preservation Association | $42,500 | 7 | 2% |
| May We Help Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Boy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Families Forward | $25,000 | 5 | n/a |
| ProKids | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Your Store of the Queen City | $25,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($418k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maxwell C Weaver Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation
How this is measured
About Maxwell C Weaver Foundation
- How much does Maxwell C Weaver Foundation give?
- Maxwell C Weaver Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Maxwell C Weaver Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Health (17%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Maxwell C Weaver Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Preservation Association ($43k), May We Help Inc ($30k), Boy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard ($30k).
- Does Maxwell C Weaver Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maxwell C Weaver Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maxwell C Weaver Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Sutphin Family Foundation Ica, Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005.
- Where is Maxwell C Weaver Foundation based?
- Maxwell C Weaver Foundation is based in MN.
Play a game based on Maxwell C Weaver’s filings →