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.

The Maple Tree Fund

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· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

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 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k43 grants · $149k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA	$10,000
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE	$8,000
SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA	$8,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH	$8,000
CARPENTER'S SHELTER	$7,000
ALIVE	$7,000
ALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM	$7,000
COMMUNITY LODGINGS	$7,000
SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA	$6,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY	$5,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY	$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$5,000
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL	$5,000
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION	$4,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON	$4,000

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 (FY17–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Maple Tree Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 50%.

The Maple Tree Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$901k · 50 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$901k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

-9%

Still filing today

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

BC
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +88%
AT
ALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +78%
SS
SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA
8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +71%

Funded once

HA
HARTFORD ART SCHOOL ENDOWMENT INC
one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -43%
FF
FAMILY FORWARD OREGONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +55%
BE
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit

The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spur Local Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alexandria Library Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 74 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)

54/55

Grantees still filing

38/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$231,500Other$358,200Human Services$113,700Housing & Shelter$92,000Community Improvement$87,000Crime & Legal$79,000Environment$78,600

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Maple Tree Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maple Tree Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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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