How much does The James and Sharon Maida Foundation give?

The James and Sharon Maida Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,582,079 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The James and Sharon Maida Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (65%), Health (31%), Environment (2%).

Who are The James and Sharon Maida Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lehigh University ($6.3M), Rutgers University Foundation ($2.4M), Monmouth Medical Center ($750k).

Does The James and Sharon Maida Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The James and Sharon Maida Foundation 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 The James and Sharon Maida Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Switlik Foundation, The Paul and Dana Magno Family Foundatio.

Where is The James and Sharon Maida Foundation based?

The James and Sharon Maida Foundation is based in NJ.

The James and Sharon Maida Foundation

The James and Sharon Maida Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$2.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.4MHealth$4.5MEnvironment$349kHousing & Shelter$86kReligion$51kScience & Tech$20kHuman Services$19kArts & Culture$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $40k
$10k–50k5 grants · $110k
$50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$250k+4 grants · $2.3M

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
St George Church	$2,500
ALEX LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION	$2,500

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 (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 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 47 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$428k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

Still filing today

49%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% 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

EducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

LU
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +69%
WC
WE CARE SOLAR
5× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +103%
OR
OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +560%

Funded once

L
Lehigh
one grant, 2022 · $375k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $15k
AH
American Heart Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +33%

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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University of New Haven

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 95 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)

35/39

Grantees still filing

24/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$8,774,064Other$4,593,110Health$841,627Environment$267,370International$21,100Food & Nutrition$14,100Arts & Culture$9,100

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The James and Sharon Maida Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Sharon Maida Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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