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Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$798k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$750kRecreation & Sports$357kPhilanthropy$330kAnimals$285kHealth$80kCrime & Legal$75kReligion$63kCommunity Improvement$40kOther$940k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $229k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $525k
$13,104
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC$175,000
AFRICAN GROVE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS$100,000
PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
JOHN G SHEDD AQUARIUM$100,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO$50,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$42,000
CITY OF HOPE$40,000
THE UCI FOUNDATION$25,000
UTOPIA FOUNDATION INC$25,000
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL$25,000
NATIONAL CHEERS FOUNDATION$15,000
WINDANSEA SURF CLUB$14,000
STELLA MARIS ACADEMY$13,104
MUSEUM OF US$10,000
VISIONARIES VOICES$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
AZ
DC
LA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 37 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
11

Total granted

$4.3M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

84%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsReligionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SL
    SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • AG
    AFRICAN GROVE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +76% · 75% of their budget
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $315k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHIKAMING TOWNSHIP CHERRY BEACH PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • BI
    BENTON INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND & SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
6
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
9
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Museum of Man Dba Museum of Us and the most unlike its peers is Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library OperationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%46%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — $1,045,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOLYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · EducationYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $85,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Education+3 more — $110,500 · Education+3 moreEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $234,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $232,500 · OtherPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTERCHIKAMING TOWNSHIP CHERRY BEACH PROJECT — $75,000 · OtherCHIKAMING TOWNSHIP CHERRY B…CITY OF HOPE — $65,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEElder Law and Disability Rights Center — $55,000 · OtherAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATIONST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $48,000 · OtherUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Other+17 more — $308,004 · Other+17 moreAFRICAN GROVE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS INC — $350,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN GROVE INST…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $220,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNI…FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY PICTURES IN…CAMERA NEWS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureVisionaries and Voices — $30,000 · Arts & CultureClifton Cultural Arts Center — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University — $315,000 · Recreation & SportsWINDANSEA SURF CLUB — $42,000 · Recreation & SportsSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NATIONAL CHEERS FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyBENTON INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND & SOCIETY — $25,000 · PhilanthropySHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $285,000 · AnimalsPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $80,000 · Health
Education$1,705,500Other$1,117,504Arts & Culture$750,000Recreation & Sports$357,000Philanthropy$330,000Animals$285,000Health$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — $1,045,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetAFRICAN GROVE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS INC — $350,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetNorthwestern University — $315,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $285,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $232,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $220,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHEERS FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetElder Law and Disability Rights Center — $55,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC — $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINDANSEA SURF CLUB — $42,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThomas Jefferson School of Law — $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAMERA NEWS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVisionaries and Voices — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBENTON INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND & SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFeeding America — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARZA COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $22,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY — $20,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER — $17,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL — $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPROCK CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The G Harold & Leila …Montgomery Family Fou…The Ford FoundationThe Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The G Harold & Leila y Mathers Charitable FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The G Harold & Leila y Mathers Charitable Foundation · Montgomery Family Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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