Illinois · Nonprofit
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,170,705 to it, the largest being ED UIHLEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation does
Programs
The center for wildlife fisheries research and management (see statement)
$1,079,160 spentConservation Leaders for Tomorrow (SEE STATEMENT)
$669,347 spentCenter for Conservation Leadership (SEE STATEMENT)
$500,519 spentThe center for conservation education (see statement)
$210,970 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $38M to $47M (+25%).
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $302k → $2.1M.
12 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 22% · 2019 37% · 2020 12% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $848k on record — $846k federal, $2k state.
- Department of the Interior$846k
- NJ$860
- MA$808
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation?
- Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,170,705 to it, the largest being ED UIHLEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $11,170,705 in grants to Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation?
- ED UIHLEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing