· Private foundation
The Maue Kay 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.
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
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BIG LIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| INT'L FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Earthjustice | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SBC | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN PEOPLE WILDLIFE FUND - APW | $2,500 |
| Living with Wolves Ltd | $2,500 |
| PAWS | $1,000 |
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 9%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +99% since the first grant, against +86% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BLBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +158%
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +99%- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2022 · $101k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEEone grant, 2018 · $43k · revenue -6%
Gorongosa Project Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +104%
Cheetah Conservation Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +69%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.
Protect wildlife and ecosystems through research, evidence-based evaluation, capacity development and advocacy.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
Animal and Wildlife legal framework
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 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 BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WITH WOLVES LTD ↗
- Who funds Gorongosa Project Inc ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Nonhuman Rights Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
- Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFEDIRECT 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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Maue Kay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maue Kay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- African People & Wildlife Fund Inc: 32% of income from government
How this is measured
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