· Private foundation
Brown Monson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $62,100 |
| ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF NH | $20,000 |
| NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP | $15,000 |
| SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUND | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION FORCE | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE | $4,500 |
| CATALYST SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| THE KEHREIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY THEATER PLAYER | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SVSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $416k · revenue +7%
- SLST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +144%
- NDNATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $7k
- TATHE ARGYROS PEFORMING ARTSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Conservation and preservation of land.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Sawtooth Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SINFONIETTA 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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brown Monson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Monson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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