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The Maple Tree Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$159k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
44
Grants FY2024
38
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 39
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Maple Tree Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving43$149k30%
FY202338$123k11%
FY202239$127k10%
FY202139$134k21%
FY202033$112k9%
FY201936$110k17%
FY201833$102k6%
FY201732$94kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$303kHuman Services$173kCrime & Legal$113kHousing & Shelter$108kCommunity Improvement$91kEnvironment$79kHealth$58kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Maple Tree Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$79,00080%
Alexandria Tutoring Consortium Inc$60,00082%
Senior Services of Alexandria$58,00081%
The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria$54,00081%
ALIVE Inc$53,00080%
Carpenter's Shelter Inc$52,00080%
Community Lodgings Inc$40,00061%
Neighborhood Health$33,00050%
Chewonki Foundation Inc$27,50080%
Wesleyan University$24,00080%
Case Western Reserve University$24,00080%
University of Chicago$23,00080%
The Campagna Center Inc$21,00070%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$20,00080%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$19,00050%
Kingswood Oxford School Inc$17,00080%
Sierra Club Foundation$16,00080%
Friends of the Guest House Inc$14,00080%
Computer Core Inc$13,00061%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$11,00070%
Alexandria Library Foundation Inc$11,00082%
The Child and Family Network Centers Inc$10,00060%
Spur Local Inc$9,00080%
Cortland County Community Action Program$8,00040%
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc$7,00060%
Family Promise of Greater Washington County$7,00020%
The Ceres Community Project$6,60030%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc$6,00020%
Beth El House Inc$6,00024%
World Learning Inc$6,00050%
Vermont Wilderness School$6,00031%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$5,50020%
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc$5,00030%
Scan of Northern Virginia Inc$4,00040%
At Home in Alexandria$4,00041%
Hartford Art School Endowment Inc$4,00010%
Sonoma Land Trust$3,60020%
Food for Thought$3,60020%
Family Forward Oregon$3,00010%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Pride Northwest Inc$2,50010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$2,50020%
Oregon Justice Resource Center$2,50010%
Immigration Counseling Service Inc$2,50010%
Central New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program$2,00010%
The School Garden Network Foundation$2,00011%
Make-It Springfield Inc$2,00011%
Groundswell Fund$2,00010%
Cortland Chenango Rural Services Inc$2,00012%
The Loppet Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra$2,00020%
The Living Room Center$1,60010%
American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia$1,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Maple Tree Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $79,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAlexandria Tutoring Consortium Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSenior Services of Alexandria: $58,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetThe Scholarship Fund of Alexandria: $54,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetALIVE Inc: $53,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCarpenter's Shelter Inc: $52,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Lodgings Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood Health: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $27,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWesleyan University: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Campagna Center Inc: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKingswood Oxford School Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Guest House Inc: $14,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetComputer Core Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlexandria Library Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetThe Child and Family Network Centers Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSpur Local Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCortland County Community Action Program: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Virginia Family Services Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Washington County: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Ceres Community Project: $6,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeth El House Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetWorld Learning Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Wilderness School: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetScan of Northern Virginia Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAt Home in Alexandria: $4,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHartford Art School Endowment Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSonoma Land Trust: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Thought: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Forward Oregon: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPride Northwest Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Justice Resource Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImmigration Counseling Service Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe School Garden Network Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMake-It Springfield Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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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.

Act for AlexandriaVA40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Act for Alexandria · Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ivakota Assoc Inc · Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Move2Learn

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.

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About The Maple Tree Fund

How much does The Maple Tree Fund give?
The Maple Tree Fund reported 44 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Maple Tree Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (17%), Crime & Legal (11%).
Who are The Maple Tree Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence ($79k), Alexandria Tutoring Consortium Inc ($60k), Senior Services of Alexandria ($58k).
Does The Maple Tree Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Maple Tree Fund 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 Maple Tree Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Act for Alexandria, Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc.
Where is The Maple Tree Fund based?
The Maple Tree Fund is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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