· Private foundation
Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| League of Women Voters Honolulu | $10,171 |
| 808 Cleanups | $10,000 |
| Kokua Kalihi Valley | $10,000 |
| Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center | $7,000 |
| Hawaii's Thousand Friends | $7,000 |
| League of Women Voters of Hawaii | $5,596 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Honolulu Civil Beat | $5,000 |
| Story Catcher | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- 8C808 CLEANUPS3× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue -3%
- MFMAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +264%
- KKKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- KTKEEP THE NORTH SHORE COUNTRYone grant, 2022 · $7k
- WTWE TALK STORYone grant, 2021 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Block Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Lunalilo Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds 808 CLEANUPS ↗
- Who funds MAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STORY CATCHER ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Youth Services Network ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THOUSAND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds BETTER BLOCK HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BETA BETA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHU OHU KOOLAU INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUNALILO HOME ↗
- Who funds 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Cooke Foundation Limited · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Stupski Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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