Maximum Difference Foundation
EIN 33-1127669 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 31 grants · $627.8k
Who it funds most
5 of its 25 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Maximum Difference Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 25 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202433209349108088
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202533219349107438 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202433209349108088 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202303189349106205 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202301669349101105 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202123199349103122 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201943189349103104 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS 990-PF | 201823189349103022 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Maximum Difference Foundation made 64 grants across 2020–2024, totalling $2.0m as filed.
- Grants
- 64
- Total, as filed
- $2.0m
- Years
- 2020–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| FARHANG FOUNDATION | 5 | $545.5k |
| ENCORPS | 1 | $500.0k |
| SOCIARTS PRODUCTIONS LLC | 3 | $238.3k |
| AMIN ARASTEH FOUNDATION | 1 | $100.0k |
| VASHT | 2 | $63.2k |
| AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID | 1 | $50.0k |
| THE VILLAGE SCHOOL | 1 | $50.0k |
| TIDES CENTER | 1 | $50.0k |
| PALESTINE LEGAL | 1 | $35.0k |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT INC | 1 | $30.0k |
| BRENTWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PRESCHOOL | 3 | $27.5k |
| NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL | 1 | $25.0k |
| IRANIAN MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF NORTH | 1 | $20.0k |
| IRANIAN MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA | 2 | $20.0k |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | 1 | $20.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 16 | $256.0k |
| 2021 | 12 | $644.4k |
| 2022 | 14 | $325.5k |
| 2023 | 14 | $466.5k |
| 2024 | 8 | $315.7k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-331127669. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified