Delaware · Private foundation
The May Family 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.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $120k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The May Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $60k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $67k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $75k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $105k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $82k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $23k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $15k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moab Valley Multicultural Center | $56,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Moab Free Health Clinic | $31,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Wabisabi Inc | $30,151 | 7 | 1% |
| Seekhaven Family Crisis Center Inc | $25,300 | 7 | 1% |
| Full Circle Intertribal Center | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Garden Project | $16,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Grand County Education Foundation | $14,650 | 1 | 30% |
| Active Minds Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Living Rivers | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| La Sal Mountain Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The May Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Alpenglow Foundation · Val a Browning Charitable Foundation · Palladium Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Ruth Brown Foundation · The Colin D Fryer Foundation · The Carl George Bjorkman Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Janet Q Lawson Foundation
How this is measured
About The May Family Foundation
- How much does The May Family Foundation give?
- The May Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $59,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The May Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Education (20%), Health (13%).
- Who are The May Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Moab Valley Multicultural Center ($56k), Moab Free Health Clinic ($32k), Wabisabi Inc ($30k).
- Does The May Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The May Family 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 May Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alpenglow Foundation, Val a Browning Charitable Foundation, Palladium Foundation.
- Where is The May Family Foundation based?
- The May Family Foundation is based in DE.
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