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Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$101kArts & Culture$43kPublic Benefit$23kYouth Development$17kHealth$15kEducation$11kHousing & Shelter$6kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$883k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Beta Beta Gamma Foundation: $5k → 9%We Talk Story Inc: $7k → 9%Hawaii Women in Filmmaking: $2k → 9%Hawaii's Thousand Friends: $7k → 9%Downtown Art Center: $5k → 9%North Shore Community Land Trust: $5k → 9%Hawaii Workers Center: $1k → 9%Kokua Kalihi Valley: $10k → 9%Kokua Kalihi Valley: $5k → 9%The Pantry by Feeding Hawaii Togeth: $5k → 9%Big Brothers and Big Sisters: $4k → 9%Olelo Community Television: $200 → 9%Malama Makua: $5k → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat: $5k → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat: $5k → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat: $3k → 9%Nalo Defense Trust: $3k → 9%Story Catcher: $5k → 9%Story Catcher: $5k → 9%Story Catcher: $5k → 9%Lunalilo Home: $818 → 9%Keep the North Shore Country: $7k → 9%Hawaii Children's Action Network: $5k → 9%Honolulu Tool Library: $5k → 9%Hawaii Youth Services Network: $5k → 9%Protect Preserve Hawaii Inc: $5k → 9%Hawaii Youth Services Network: $5k → 9%Ohu Ohu Koo'lau Inc: $5k → 9%Hawaii Youth Services Network: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 8 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
25

Total granted

$119k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • 8C
    808 CLEANUPS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue -3%
  • MF
    MAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +264%
  • KK
    KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • KT
    KEEP THE NORTH SHORE COUNTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • WT
    WE TALK STORY
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
5
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
7
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
8
Na Mamo o Kawa

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.

Environment
9
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
10
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii Education Institute
—
12
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Block Hawaii; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hawaii Youth Services Network: $13,493 · OtherHawaii Youth Services NetworkLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF HAWAII: $10,579 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF HAWAIILeague of Women Voters Honolulu: $10,419 · OtherLeague of Women Voters HonoluluKEEP THE NORTH SHORE COUNTRY: $7,487 · OtherKEEP THE NORTH SHORE COUNTRYWE TALK STORY: $7,000 · OtherWE TALK STORYIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherProtect Preserve Hawaii Inc: $5,000 · OtherThe Pantry by Feeding Hawaii Togeth: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherMALAMA MAKUA: $5,000 · OtherHonolulu Tool Library: $4,830 · Other+4 more: $9,510 · Other+4 more808 CLEANUPS: $21,500 · Environment808 CLEANUPSMAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER: $19,798 · EnvironmentMAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE…THE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY …BETTER BLOCK HAWAII: $5,000 · EnvironmentBETTER BLOCK HAWAIIOHU OHU KOOLAU INC: $4,998 · EnvironmentOHU OHU KOOLAU INCSTORY CATCHER: $14,950 · Arts & CultureSTORY CATCHERHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $13,412 · Arts & CultureHonolulu Civil…HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING: $2,156 · Arts & CultureHAWAII WOMEN I…+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 · HealthHAWAII THOUSAND FRIENDS: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBETA BETA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 · EducationHAWAII WORKERS CENTER: $1,000 · EducationDOWNTOWN ART CENTER: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$113,318Environment$56,296Arts & Culture$30,718Health$15,000Philanthropy$12,000Education$6,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget808 CLEANUPS: $21,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER: $19,798 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTORY CATCHER: $14,950 over 3y, 40% of budgetHawaii Youth Services Network: $13,493 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $13,412 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN ART CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBETTER BLOCK HAWAII: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETA BETA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetOHU OHU KOOLAU INC: $4,998 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING: $2,156 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII WORKERS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUNALILO HOME: $818 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Cooke Foundation Limi…McInerny Foundation--Kosasa FoundationAloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…Tradewind Group Found…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Stupski FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…PatagoniaorgAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Cooke Foundation LimitedHI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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