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George Gardner Monks Foundation at a glance

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George Gardner Monks Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Social Science$190kEnvironment$151kArts & Culture$103kPublic Benefit$100kReligion$65kEducation$55kHuman Services$25kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Promise Education Fund$50,000
Coudert Institute$10,000
Maine Behavioral Healthcare$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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRUSTEESHIP INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
KS
DC
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 10 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$488k
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
0%

Still filing today

80%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • ID
    Infact DBA Corporate Accountability
    4× · 2017–2020 · $140k · revenue +27%
  • Portland Museum of Art
    2× · 2018–2019 · $103k · revenue +57%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • HL
    HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CI
    COUDERT INSTITUTE VILLA DEI FIORI INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • TC
    THE COURDERT INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

ACF is dedicated to supporting and increasing philanthropy by making grants to tax exempt organizations for their charitable, educational, scientific, literary or other 501c3 activities; promoting donor education and engagement, and civic…

Philanthropy
4
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
5
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
6
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
7
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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8
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
9
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
10
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
11
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
12
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maharishi Foundation Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Wilkins Family Foundation Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOLTHE COUDERT INSTITUTE: $70,000 · OtherTHE COUDERT INSTITUTEAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC: $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INCMISSIONS OF MERCY: $25,000 · OtherMISSIONS OF MERCYTHE COURDERT INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherTHE COURDERT INSTITUTEMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $20,000 · OtherMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC+9 more: $48,200 · Other+9 moreInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $140,000 · EnvironmentInfact DBA Corporate …Portland Museum of Art: $102,500 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum o…FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN DELANO R…COUDERT INSTITUTE VILLA DEI FIORI INC: $50,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $4,500 · EducationThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania: $25,000 · Human ServicesTRUST FUNDS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCenter for Political Accountability: $30,000 · Public BenefitALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Social Science
Other$343,200Environment$140,000Arts & Culture$112,500Education$54,500Human Services$35,000Public Benefit$30,000Social Science$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $140,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $102,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOUDERT INSTITUTE VILLA DEI FIORI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCenter for Political Accountability: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania: $25,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Maine Conservation Initiative: $11,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilkins Family Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 7.3% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 George Gardner Monks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Gardner Monks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 24 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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