· Private foundation
Maxwell 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rising Star Outreach | $5,100 |
| Southern Virginia University | $2,500 |
| Central Valley Community Foundation | $2,500 |
| THE SHALOM FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FRESNO MISSION | $1,250 |
| JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| Mothers Without Borders | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $250 |
| The Leadership Institute | $100 |
| National Parks Conservation Associa | $100 |
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 (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Maxwell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue -3%
- JHJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST3× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue -33%
- MWMothers Without Borders3× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +198%
MARJAREE MASON CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +153%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +281%
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 Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Acquire and manage assets in support of lutheran hospital association of the san luis valley.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 THE SHALOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mothers Without Borders ↗
- Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
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 Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maxwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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