· Private foundation
The James and Sharon Maida 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lehigh University | $1,014,407 |
| RWJ Barnabus Health Care System | $509,501 |
| RWJ Barnabus Health Care System | $508,453 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $279,571 |
| Make a Change World | $120,000 |
| MONMOUTH MEDICAL CTR | $45,500 |
| Lehigh University | $28,667 |
| We Care Solar | $16,000 |
| HABITAT for HUMANITY | $10,200 |
| Kutztown Univer of PA | $10,000 |
| Save Barnegat Bay | $5,550 |
| Rocking the Boat | $5,000 |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation | $4,500 |
| ALEX LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| St George Church | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +69%
- WCWE CARE SOLAR5× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +103%
- OROCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +560%
Funded once
- LLehighone grant, 2022 · $375k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Task Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Independence Seaport Museum ↗
- Who funds LUCKY 7 ANGELS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Sailing Foundation of Barnegat Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Switlik Foundation · The Paul and Dana Magno Family Foundatio · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The James and Sharon Maida Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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