How much does May Foundation Trust give?

May Foundation Trust reported 49 grants totaling $80,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does May Foundation Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Health (16%), Human Services (12%).

Who are May Foundation Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Place for Youth ($11k), New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Inc ($11k), Berea College ($11k).

Does May Foundation Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does May Foundation 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as May Foundation Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust.

Where is May Foundation Trust based?

May Foundation Trust is based in VA.

May Foundation Trust

May Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

May Foundation Trust

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.

$80k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$73kHealth$66kHuman Services$48kArts & Culture$31kHousing & Shelter$31kFood & Nutrition$30kInternational$26kCivil Rights$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,775

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$1,775
BEREA COLLEGE	$1,775
ANERA	$1,775
AMERICA'S GOLD STAR FAMILIES	$1,775
KIVA MICROFUNDS	$1,775
SPRING LAKE RANCH	$1,775
RAINN	$1,775
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$1,775
BUTTERFLIES USA	$1,775
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK	$1,775
HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE	$1,775
HOVING HOME	$1,775
OASIS	$1,775
SANEENERGY PROJECT	$1,775
Individual grant recipient	$1,775

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$367k · 59 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$367k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

-17%

Still filing today

76%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

FP
FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH
6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
NY
NEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +3%
BEREA COLLEGE
6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +3%

Funded once

CF
COLLECTIVE FOOD WORKS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +226%
BV
BETHANY VILLAGE AT CAMP MCDOWELL
one grant, 2020 · $2k
WC
WOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -38%

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International

Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment

Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Ukraine Inc; the most unlike its peers is Running Start. 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

62 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. 62 of the 88 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/62

Grantees still filing

40/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$185,785Human Services$56,523Environment$43,788Education$43,533International$33,916Health$26,755Food & Nutrition$21,020

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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Borealis Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 May Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from May Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home