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Maxwell Land Trust

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.

$22k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2021
86%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$21,840
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,840
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 86% of the organizations Maxwell Land Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$22k100%
FY20217$403k86%
FY20203$17k67%
FY20191$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$122kFood & Nutrition$107kHuman Services$100kRecreation & Sports$90kArts & Culture$25kInternational$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North & South Rivers Watershed Association Inc$100,00018%
The Salvation Army$100,0001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.

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How do I get to Maxwell Land Trust?

Find your warmest path to Maxwell Land Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Maxwell Land Trust

How much does Maxwell Land Trust give?
Maxwell Land Trust reported 1 grants totaling $21,840 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Maxwell Land Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (22%).
Who are Maxwell Land Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: North & South Rivers Watershed Association Inc ($100k), The Salvation Army ($100k).
Does Maxwell Land Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maxwell Land Trust 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.
Where is Maxwell Land Trust based?
Maxwell Land Trust is based in MA.

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 10 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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