California · Private foundation
The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation
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.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2022
- 164
- Grants FY2022
- 138
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $696,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 138
- FY2019 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 25
- Total assets, FY2022
- $561M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 54% of the organizations The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 138 | $4.3M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $2.1M | 86% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $710k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $296k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Artists Inc | $1,361,500 | 2 | 10% |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $750,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Geographic Society | $320,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $280,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $220,000 | 3 | 1% |
| San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum | $205,000 | 2 | 4% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $132,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Sonoma Land Trust | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $130,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 138 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Fort Mason Center · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Humboldt Area Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
How this is measured
About The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation
- How much does The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation give?
- The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation reported 164 grants totaling $4,622,575 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 138 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
- What does The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Science & Tech (7%), Arts & Culture (7%), Environment (5%).
- Who are The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: United States Artists Inc ($1.4M), Rhode Island School of Design ($750k), National Geographic Society ($320k).
- Does The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation 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 Maxwellhanrahan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fort Mason Center, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation based?
- The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation is based in CA.
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