California · Private foundation
Roach Maxam Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Roach Maxam Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $90k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $66k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $78k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $113k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $62k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $55k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $48k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $36k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $69,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Government Accountability Project | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Muttville | $46,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Oakwood School | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Pad Project | $32,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jhpiego Corporation | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project on Government Oversight Inc | $20,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Alexandria House | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trust Women Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Piedmont Education Foundation | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $69,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Government Accountability Project | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Muttville | $46,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Oakwood School | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Pad Project | $32,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jhpiego Corporation | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project on Government Oversight Inc | $20,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Alexandria House | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trust Women Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Piedmont Education Foundation | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| East Bay Spca | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Napa County Land Trust | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hollywood Food Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| McKinley Children's Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| League to Save Lake Tahoe | $4,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Inyo | $4,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Angel Food | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Noho Home Alliance | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Brown Bag Lady | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Musicians on Call Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piedmont Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 10% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roach Maxam Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Roach Maxam Family Foundation
- How much does Roach Maxam Family Foundation give?
- Roach Maxam Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $95,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Roach Maxam Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (15%), Health (15%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Roach Maxam Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($69k), Government Accountability Project ($65k), Muttville ($46k).
- Does Roach Maxam Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roach Maxam Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Roach Maxam Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Roach Maxam Family Foundation based?
- Roach Maxam Family Foundation is based in CA.
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