· Private foundation
Mark and Tracie Monroe Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dell Childrens Foundation | $100,000 |
| University of Texas | $50,000 |
| Austin Smiles | $20,000 |
| Austin Zoo | $17,500 |
| Rahabs Sisters | $15,000 |
| Kinship House | $10,000 |
| OU Foundation | $10,000 |
| Horatio Alger Association | $5,000 |
| Bike Loud PDX | $5,000 |
| Providence Portland Medical Fdtn | $5,000 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | $5,000 |
| Write Around Portland | $5,000 |
| Caritas of Austin | $2,500 |
| P Ear | $2,000 |
| Glencoe Elementary PTA | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- DCDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $115k · revenue +42%
- AZAUSTIN ZOO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +110%
- RSRAHAB'S SISTERS6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +221%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%- HAHuman Access Projectone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- UOUniversity of Texas at Austinone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The mission of planned parenthood of the columbia willamette (ppcw) is to provide, promote and protect access to quality reproductive and sexual health care in oregon and southwest washington.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives and the most unlike its peers is For the Girls. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
52 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. 52 of the 77 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 DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds RAHAB'S SISTERS ↗
- Who funds Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE AROUND PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Fore Stark County Youth Development Inc ↗
- Who funds Glencoe Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds Human Access Project ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds USAHELLO ↗
- Who funds Continental Resources Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds PERIOD INC ↗
- Who funds COLINS HOPE ↗
- Who funds EXODUS 17 ↗
- Who funds FOR THE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds SEA TURTLE INC ↗
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: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Larson Legacy · The Reser Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hwirwin & Dch Irwin Fdnferg · Sangham Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Hoover Family Foundation
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 Mark and Tracie Monroe Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- The Marie Equi Institute — 26% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Walks — 15% of income from government
- Write Around Portland — 6% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Period Inc — 0% of income from government
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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