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Maynard Family 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.7MHealth$6.9MRecreation & Sports$3.2MHuman Services$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MYouth Development$990kFood & Nutrition$512kReligion$285kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKEMED FOUNDATION$500,000
UNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL$500,000
RON CLARK ACADEMY INC$18,000
CAMP CORRAL$7,500
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC: $5k → 16%HORSEPOWER INC: $5k → 16%GC CARES INC: $100k → 8%GC CARES INC: $100k → 8%GC CARES INC: $3k → 8%GC CARES INC: $2k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5k → 8%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5k → 8%MABOPANE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $100k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 44 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
40

Total granted

$21M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+16%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4.1M · revenue +25%
  • EC
    EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +98%
  • TK
    THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NN
    NCSU NC AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • CASA
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -3%
  • DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +451%
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.

1
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
2
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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3
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
4
North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…

Social Science
5
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
6
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children

To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.

Philanthropy
7
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
8
Alamance Community College Foundation

The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.

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9
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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10
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
11
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.

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12
North Carolina Bar Association

The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nc Child; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

58 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. 58 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
42/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,100,000 · EducationEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN…THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,700,000 · EducationTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUN…RON CLARK ACADEMY INC: $462,000 · EducationRON CLARK ACADEMY INCRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $400,000 · Education+8 more: $364,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $4,000,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-MD ANDERSON CANC…WAKEMED FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherWAKEMED FOUNDATIONUNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherUNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOLHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $300,000 · OtherThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $300,000 · Other+51 more: $2,438,576 · Other+51 moreEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST CAROLINA UN…TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $305,000 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE GOLF FO…+1 more: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD PEDIATRICS: $1,252,000 · International+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $501,000 · Human ServicesThe Methodist Home for Children Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesGC Cares Inc: $205,000 · Human Services+6 more: $56,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyCAMP CORRAL: $347,909 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth Development
Education$8,026,000Other$8,288,576Recreation & Sports$3,405,000International$1,267,000Human Services$1,012,000Philanthropy$1,000,000Youth Development$472,909

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,100,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,700,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $1,252,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $501,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRON CLARK ACADEMY INC: $462,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP CORRAL: $347,909 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $305,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $300,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGC Cares Inc: $205,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $175,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAFECHILD: $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHIGHER ED WORKS: $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetC A R E dba The John 3 16 Center: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALDERT ROOT ELEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTRIANGLE LITERACY COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCROSBY SCHOLARS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNC CHILD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelene Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCES OF GUILFORD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationBell Koonce Burnette …The Winston-Salem Fou…A E Finley Foundation…Aj Fletcher FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…Eddie and Jo Allison …Hillsdale FundBell Cook Family Foun…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC63.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Bell Cook Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr 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 Maynard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maynard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Maynard Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Maynard Family Foundation 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.

    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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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