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The Maas 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$5.7MCivil Rights$250kEducation$239kArts & Culture$162kCrime & Legal$50kHealth$45kHuman Services$37kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$2,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUAH WOODS$2,000,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI$200,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%STEPPING STONES: $3k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $3k → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 19 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
27

Total granted

$6.3M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+30%

Still filing today

47%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationReligionCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • RW
    RUAH WOODS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +148%
  • BM
    BLOC MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $857k · revenue +84%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $250k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • P
    ProKidsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +210%
  • MO
    MOTHER OF MERCY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • MH
    Madis House Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +226%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Connections for Life

Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.

Health
2
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

3
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…

Recreation & Sports
4
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
5
Endurance with Jan & Dave Dravecky

Endurance offers provision through the journey of suffering. We accomplish this as we offer comfort by validating the emotional, relational, and spiritual challenges encountered on the journey of suffering. We offer encouragement through a…

Religion
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
7
Work Community Independence Inc

Wci's mission is to empower and support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and acquired brain injury to achieve rich and meaningful lives at home, at work and in their communities.

8
Salem Christian Homes Inc

Board, care and training of physically and mentally handicapped adults.

Human Services
9
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
10
Job Options Inc

To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.

Employment
11
Arc of Wabash County Inc

The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…

Human Services
12
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Laurens Fight for Cure 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#16#6#13#15#12#4#26#23#22
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 55 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr20%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%71%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr20%7%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,276

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RUAH WOODS — $4,263,500 · EducationRUAH WOODS+1 more — $1,000 · EducationBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $857,000 · ReligionBLOC MINISTRIES I…The Underground Inc — $125,000 · ReligionThe Underground I…ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI — $207,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF …HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL OF FAITH — $162,500 · OtherHOLY FAMILY SCH…PROKIDS OF CINCINNATI — $150,000 · OtherPROKIDS OF CINC…MT ST MARY SEMINARY OF THE WEST ATHENAEUM OF OHIO NORWOOD — $125,000 · OtherMT ST MARY SEMI…OUR LADY OF VISITATION CHURCH — $38,021 · Other+29 more — $214,933 · Other+29 moreCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $250,000 · Civil RightsProKids — $50,000 · Civil RightsMadis House Inc — $15,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $7,500 · HealthGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 · HealthWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · HealthHABILITAT INC — $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN HUEY 369 INC — $33,000 · Arts & CultureLAURENS FIGHT FOR CURE INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$4,264,500Religion$982,000Other$897,454Civil Rights$300,000Health$35,500Arts & Culture$33,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRUAH WOODS — $4,263,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $857,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $250,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Underground Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetProKids — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN HUEY 369 INC — $33,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMadis House Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAURENS FIGHT FOR CURE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABILITAT INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 RUAH WOODS
  • Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
  • Who funds The Underground Inc
  • Who funds ProKids
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUEY 369 INC
  • Who funds Madis House Inc
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC
  • Who funds LAURENS FIGHT FOR CURE INC
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati
  • Who funds GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD
  • Who funds WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds HABILITAT INC
  • Who funds KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE

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.

Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Berning Family Foundation · Juniper Tree Foundation Fka Morelock Family Foundation · The Heidt Family Foundation · Tql Foundation Inc · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation 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 Maas Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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