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Mayer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$373k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Mayer Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving9$45k33%
FY202310$47k50%
FY202210$29k30%
FY202110$25k60%
FY20207$26k57%
FY20198$26k38%
FY201811$26k64%
FY20178$25kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$77kReligion$52kHuman Services$38kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$14kPublic Benefit$14kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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OH
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CA
CO
VA
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TN
NC
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OK
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mayer Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThis Time Tomorrow Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetKathy's House Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFirst Priority of Metro Atlanta: $21,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDoor County Secret Santa: $8,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetNorthwood Children's Home Society Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrafton Little League Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVeterans Outreach of Wisconsin: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Helo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans For Child Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOur Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuskego Senior Taxi Service Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStill Strong Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSpecial Operators Transition Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Help a Hero: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSenior Citizens Activities Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Mast Cell Disease Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFull Shelf Food Pantry Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Washington County Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Baird Foundation IncWI18.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Mayer Family Foundation Inc

How much does Mayer Family Foundation Inc give?
Mayer Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mayer Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Religion (21%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Mayer Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: This Time Tomorrow Inc ($25k), Kathy's House Inc ($23k), First Priority of Metro Atlanta ($22k).
Does Mayer Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mayer Family Foundation Inc 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 Mayer Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
Where is Mayer Family Foundation Inc based?
Mayer Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 39 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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