Hawaii · Private foundation
Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,171
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $883k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $65k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $41k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $39k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $47k | 90% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 808 Cleanups | $21,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center | $19,798 | 4 | 5% |
| Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Story Catcher | $14,950 | 3 | 40% |
| Hawaii Youth Services Network | $13,493 | 3 | 1% |
| Honolulu Civil Beat Inc | $13,412 | 3 | 0% |
| League of Women Voters of Hawaii | $10,579 | 3 | n/a |
| Keep the North Shore Country | $7,487 | 1 | n/a |
| We Talk Story | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawaii Thousand Friends | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 808 Cleanups | $21,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center | $19,798 | 4 | 5% |
| Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Story Catcher | $14,950 | 3 | 40% |
| Hawaii Youth Services Network | $13,493 | 3 | 1% |
| Honolulu Civil Beat Inc | $13,412 | 3 | 0% |
| League of Women Voters of Hawaii | $10,579 | 3 | n/a |
| Keep the North Shore Country | $7,487 | 1 | n/a |
| We Talk Story | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawaii Thousand Friends | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The North Shore Community Land Trust | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Downtown Art Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Better Block Hawaii | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hawaii Children's Action Network | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Malama Makua | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beta Beta Gamma Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Ohu Ohu Koolau Inc | $4,998 | 1 | 2% |
| Hawaii Women in Filmmaking | $2,156 | 1 | 1% |
| Hawaii Workers Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lunalilo Home | $818 | 1 | 0% |
| 'Olelo Community Television | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc
- How much does Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc give?
- Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc reported 9 grants totaling $64,767 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Arts & Culture (18%), Public Benefit (10%).
- Who are Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: 808 Cleanups ($22k), Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center ($20k), Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services ($15k).
- Does Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooke Foundation Limited, McInerny Foundation--, Kosasa Foundation.
- Where is Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc based?
- Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc is based in HI.
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