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The Maxim 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.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$534kHealth$209kInternational$96kReligion$28kPhilanthropy$28kFood & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$21kAnimals$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$732k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$43,920
FLATTOP FUND$15,000
WE CARE FUND$6,750
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK$5,000
EPIC FAMILY OF HUMAN SERVICES AGENCIES$5,000
THE THURSDAY CLUB$5,000
LUMIND IDSC FOUNDATION$5,000
ACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING FOUNDATION$3,500
COLOMBO - AMERICAN INFORMATION OFFICE$2,500
SEVEN SIX FOUNDATION$2,500
SEASMART$2,000
CHABAD OF SOUTH BEACH$1,800
ISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC$1,800
I AM CULTURED$1,000
FLORAL PARK KNIGHTS YOUTH BASEBALL$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIVER FUND: $5k → 13%GUNS & HOSES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%DEZY STRONG INC: $3k → 7%DEZY STRONG INC: $3k → 7%JETS OF AMERICA LTD: $250 → 7%JETS OF AMERICA LTD: $250 → 7%JETS OF AMERICA LTD: $200 → 7%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$671k · 33 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
94

Total granted

$671k
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+26%

Still filing today

36%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $103k · revenue +100%
  • SD
    SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +38%
  • DH
    DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -16%
  • MO
    MORASHA OLAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • GM
    GEORGE M HOLT FUNERAL HOME FBO HEVE
    one grant, 2017 · $24k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

2
Alcides E Rosaura Diniz Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds and foster basic and translational research to identify genetic causes of specific cancers, understand how genes contribute to the disease, and use that understanding to help develop better…

3
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
6
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
7
Chance for Life

Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.

Health
8
Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Accelerate and increase impact of scientific discoveries within cancer biology and oncology.

Health
9
King Hussein Cancer Foundation Usa

Khcf usa furthers the mission of the king hussein cancer foundation in jordan and the advancement of cancer research by promoting and providing educational materials and engaging in fundraising to support the foundation in jordan.

Health
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

11
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
12
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Supports for Living Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is I Am Cultured Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsPublic University Foundatio…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Fallen First Responder Supp…Community Arts OrganizationsChristian Youth CampsCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionSubstance Abuse TreatmentFood Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%11%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,701

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 140 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $278,249 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBSWIFT — $58,734 · OtherBSWIFTGEORGE M HOLT FUNERAL HOME FBO HEVE — $24,113 · Other+100 more — $336,784 · Other+100 moreALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $102,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUN…The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $14,200 · HealthThe Susan G Kome…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Health+10 more — $28,000 · Health+10 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — $50,382 · InternationalMORASHA OLAMI INC — $25,000 · InternationalCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC — $6,000 · International+1 more — $1,800 · InternationalSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesDEZY STRONG INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesGUNS 'N HOSES FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $700 · Human ServicesACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWe Care Fund Inc — $6,750 · PhilanthropyRILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,800 · PhilanthropyAMENIA WASSAIC COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $1,500 · PhilanthropyDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC — $16,000 · Recreation & SportsPAL PRIDE IN ATHLETICS FOR LIFE CORP — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSeven Six Foundation Inc — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,800 · Recreation & SportsORLANDO FIREFIGHTER HOCKEY CLUB INC — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY HARVEST INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionHorsemans Harvest Neighborhood Pantry Inc — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$697,880Health$162,200International$83,182Human Services$55,700Philanthropy$42,350Recreation & Sports$26,300Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $102,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — $50,382 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $14,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA LITTLE HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOLIVIA'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDREAMFLIGHT USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THURSDAY CLUB SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAL PRIDE IN ATHLETICS FOR LIFE CORP — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorsemans Harvest Neighborhood Pantry Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEZY STRONG INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCMC FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUNS 'N HOSES FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLineage Project Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINJURED POLICE OFFICERS FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMENIA WASSAIC COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLONG ISLAND VOLUNTEER CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK MARTIN FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetI HEART ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLogan Strong Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJETS OF AMERICA LTD — $700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds MORASHA OLAMI INC
  • Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds ACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds We Care Fund Inc
  • Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC
  • Who funds LuMind IDSC Foundation
  • Who funds EPIC FAMILY OF HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC
  • Who funds A LITTLE HOPE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Maxim Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Maxim Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Maxim Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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