· Private foundation
The Maple Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $256k
Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in John Hancock Life Ins Co.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY | $100,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $56,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS | $50,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE | $25,000 |
| TYPE MEDIA CENTER | $25,000 |
| ADULTS & CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress6× · 2017–2022 · $330k · revenue +67%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue 0%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE4× · 2022–2025 · $84k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERone grant, 2024 · $58k · revenue 0%
- WAWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $58k · revenue -67%
- WFWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
The mission of indivisible civics is to build civic leadership to empower a grassroots movement that's advancing progressive values and policies. it educates and builds the capacity of grassroots activists with organizing support,…
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To use digital media for the purpose of educating and engaging the public in topics regarding inequality and imbalance of power in america.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
The foundation's mission is to produce, support and promote high-quality journalism focused on underserved issue and focus areas in order to educate and inform the public and ensure widespread, ongoing public access to educational,…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Maple Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maple Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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