How much does The Maas Family Foundation give?

The Maas Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Maas Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (87%), Civil Rights (4%), Education (4%).

Who are The Maas Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ruah Woods ($4.3M), Bloc Ministries Inc ($857k), Center for Christian Virtue ($250k).

Does The Maas Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Maas Family 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 Maas Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation.

Where is The Maas Family Foundation based?

The Maas Family Foundation is based in OH.

The Maas Family Foundation

The Maas Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

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.

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

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $2.0M

$2,000,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RUAH WOODS	$2,000,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI	$200,000

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 (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 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.

$6.3M · 19 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.3M

$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+32%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationReligionCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

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%

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.

Connections for Life

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

Health

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…

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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

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

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

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

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.

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Salem Christian Homes Inc

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

Human Services

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

Job Options Inc

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

Employment

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

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue; 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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 48 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)

20/20

Grantees still filing

17/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$4,264,500Religion$982,000Other$897,454Civil Rights$300,000Health$35,500Arts & Culture$33,000Philanthropy$10,000

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.

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

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 Maas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home