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The William J & Shirley a Maeck Family Foundation at a glance

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The William J & Shirley a Maeck Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$442k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$519kPublic Benefit$511kHealth$78kReligion$53kHousing & Shelter$23kHuman Services$19kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO$129,518
DISTRICT 91 EDUCATION FOUNDATION$110,175
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$105,596
STRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS$22,000
DISTRICT 91 EDUCATION FOUNDATION$19,250
IDAHO FALLS OPERA THEATER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FREEMED$8,000
IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL$6,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET$5,000
ART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
JD VII CASA PROGRAM$2,500
IDAHO HEART FOUNDATION INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 11%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 25 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
8

Total granted

$2.1M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+243%

Still filing today

36%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • IF
    IDAHO FALLS SD 91 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $633k · revenue +338% · 67% of their budget
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF IDAHO
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +7%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $244k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TU
    TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
  • TR
    TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +243%
  • IS
    IDAHO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

1
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
4
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
—
5
East Idaho Aquarium Corporation
Animals
6
Idaho Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc
Crime & Legal
7
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
8
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
9
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
10
Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation Inc

To promote, ensure & maintain excellent & comprehensive educational opportunities for the children and youth served by Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind from birth to 26 years of age across the state of Idaho.

Unclassified
11
Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation Inc

Wild sheep preservation

Animals
12
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Idaho Falls Fraternal Order of Police 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDAHO FALLS SD 91 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $633,016 · OtherIDAHO FALLS SD 91 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONCITY OF IDAHO FALLS: $510,569 · OtherCITY OF IDAHO FALLSMUSEUM OF IDAHO: $300,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF IDAHOCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC: $243,892 · OtherCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INCCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO: $129,518 · OtherCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $105,596 · Other+23 more: $387,514 · Other+23 moreIDAHO FALLS SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureIDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSTRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS: $22,000 · Arts & CultureIDAHO FALLS OPERA THEATRE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentDEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyIDAHO FALLS FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF EASTERN IDAHO INC: $7,500 · HealthIDAHO HEART FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$2,310,105Arts & Culture$143,000Environment$15,000Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$10,000Health$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO FALLS SD 91 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $633,016 over 6y, 67% of budgetMUSEUM OF IDAHO: $300,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetCOLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC: $243,892 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetIDAHO FALLS SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetIDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO: $30,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSTRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS: $22,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetIDAHO FALLS OPERA THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF EASTERN IDAHO INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIDAHO HEART FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 IDAHO FALLS SD 91 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FALLS SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds STRING ACADEMY OF IDAHO FALLS ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FALLS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF EASTERN IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FALLS FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO HEART FOUNDATION 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.

Idaho Community Found…Chc FoundationBattelle Memorial Ins…Leland D Beckman Foun…Anne Staton Voilleque…Blue Cross of Idaho F…Laura Moore Cunningha…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Idaho Community Foundation IncID21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Chc Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Leland D Beckman Foundation · Anne Staton Voilleque Charitable Foundation · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William J & Shirley a Maeck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William J & Shirley a Maeck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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