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MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,556,765 to it, the largest being THE PLUMSOCK FUND INC ($3,714,622). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$6.6M
Net assets
$7.2M
16/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Maya Educational Foundation does

Mission

The Maya Educational Foundation (mef) supports programs dedicated to the educational and professional advancement of maya people. How we achieve this mission:with our focus on higher education, we partner with proven nonprofits in guatemala, mexico, and belize in order to be able to provide university-level scholarships to promising and determined maya students from poor economic backgrounds.we make sure that all our scholarship programs show a high representation of women and girls and respect for maya culture and traditions.in order to increase educational access for maya students in remote areas, we work with nonprofits who encourage students to advance towards vocational high-school or university.we also support the efforts of two important guardians of historical and cultural heritage of the mesoamerican region: cirma in antigua, guatemala and sna jtz'ibajom (house of the writer) in san cristobal de las casas, mexico.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The foundation primarily provides grants that support and promote educational and scholarship programs in the maya region of mexico and central america. Approximately 15 - 20 grants are awarded annually to vetted nonprofit partners in guatemala, mexico, and belize. Representatives of the foundation travel to these areas periodically to monitor and observe the programs and regular online meetings are held with supervisors and students. Mef serves up to 500 maya students per year in the various scholarship programs it supports.

    $338,115 spentof which $282,100 as grants
    52% of program spending
  2. The foundation annually provides grants to cirma in guatemala and sna jtz'ibajom, in support of their missions to foster study and preservation of mayan languages and cultures of the mesoamerican region.for more than four decades cirma has been recognized internationally for its dedication to the rescue and preservation of guatemala's visual and documentary patrimony. Mef's support of cirma focuses on their unique historical and photographic archives and their comprehensive library specializing in the social sciences, with books and periodicals pertaining to the mesoamerican region.in january 2024, mef started a scholarship program, with the help of cirma: 56 students, formerly in two other mef programs, are now being served by mef staff, with accounting and auditing oversight from cirma. This collaborative venture is called programa de becas mayas mef.sna jtz'ibajom (house of the writer), the maya writers' group in san cristobal de las casas has fought for the preservation of maya culture and promotion of literacy since 1983. The group's members have produced many plays and performances, written books, grammar and language manuals, taught literacy and indigenous language courses,…

    $313,316 spentof which $313,315 as grants
    48% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $651,431.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($833k) Expenses 100 ($875k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 132 ($1.1M) Expenses 83 ($723k) Net assets 125 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 102 ($845k) Expenses 93 ($816k) Net assets 129 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 110 ($920k) Expenses 88 ($766k) Net assets 137 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 123 ($1.0M) Expenses 79 ($695k) Net assets 193 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 150 ($1.2M) Expenses 78 ($686k) Net assets 185 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 125 ($1.0M) Expenses 86 ($749k) Net assets 219 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 259 ($2.2M) Expenses 87 ($758k) Net assets 265 ($6.2M)2025 Revenue 156 ($1.3M) Expenses 88 ($768k) Net assets 306 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (156)Expenses (88)Net assets (306)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.5M (+41%).

$2.3M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$4.5M
$4.4M
$5.2M
$6.2M
$7.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$42k
’17
$375k
’18
$29k
’19
$154k
’20
$331k
’21
$559k
’22
$290k
’23
$1.4M
’24
$529k
’25
6.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Amy Holly

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed8888889810
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+3+0+7
No longer listed·00100215
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $569k → $789k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

57%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 58% · 2020 53% · 2021 55% · 2022 60% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.

“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

79% of MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

VT
IL
MI
MA
NJ
CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $784k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

41%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Plumsock Fund Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,556,765 to it, the largest being THE PLUMSOCK FUND INC ($3,714,622). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,556,765 in grants to MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
THE PLUMSOCK FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,714,622 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 20 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing