California · Private foundation
Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $188k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 17 | $188k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $100k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $45k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $98k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $48k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $188k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $71k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| True Vine Bible Fellowship | $34,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Transition House | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Storyteller Childrens Center Inc | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Calaveras County Fair | $20,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation | $19,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Lompoc Teen Center | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($381k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Audacious Foundation · California Community Foundation · George B Page Foundation
How this is measured
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About Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation
- How much does Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation give?
- Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $187,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Arts & Culture (21%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum ($35k), True Vine Bible Fellowship ($34k), Transition House ($30k).
- Does Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Towbes Foundation.
- Where is Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation based?
- Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation is based in CA.
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