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Mark and Tracie Monroe Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$263k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$265kEducation$96kHuman Services$92kAnimals$84kHousing & Shelter$37kEnvironment$28kArts & Culture$24kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dell Childrens Foundation$100,000
University of Texas$50,000
Austin Smiles$20,000
Austin Zoo$17,500
Rahabs Sisters$15,000
OU Foundation$10,000
Kinship House$10,000
Write Around Portland$5,000
MD Anderson Cancer Center$5,000
Horatio Alger Association$5,000
Providence Portland Medical Fdtn$5,000
Bike Loud PDX$5,000
Caritas of Austin$2,500
P Ear$2,000
First Tee of Canton$1,500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Texas: $50k → 10%Sea Turtle Inc: $2k → 23%OU Foundation: $10k → 13%Community Fdt Tampa Bay: $3k → 13%P Ear: $2k → 12%First Tee of Canton: $2k → 13%Clan Munro USA Association: $3k → 7%Horatio Alger Association: $5k → 9%University of Texas: $30k → 10%P Ear: $2k → 12%First Tee of Canton: $2k → 13%Clan Munro USA Association: $3k → 7%Center for Child Protection: $4k → 10%University of Oklahoma Foundation: $6k → 16%First Tee of Canton: $2k → 13%Doctors Without Borders: $10k → 17%Center for Child Protection: $3k → 10%University of Oklahoma Foundation: $5k → 16%First Tee of Canton: $2k → 13%First Tee of Canton: $2k → 13%Providence Portland Medical Fdtn: $10k → 12%Providence Portland Medical Fdtn: $5k → 12%Dell Childrens Foundation: $100k → 10%Dell Children's Foundation: $15k → 10%Human Access Project: $5k → 12%Bee Cave Elementary PTO: $2k → 10%Bee Cave Elementary PTO: $2k → 10%Bike Loud PDX: $10k → 12%Bike Loud PDX: $5k → 12%Austin Smiles: $20k → 10%Write Around Portland: $5k → 12%Austin Smiles: $20k → 10%Write Around Portland: $5k → 12%Switch Energy Alliance: $5k → 10%Write Around Portland: $3k → 12%Austin Smiles: $7k → 10%Write Around Portland: $3k → 12%Switch Energy Alliance: $5k → 10%Austin Smiles: $6k → 10%Write Around Portland: $3k → 12%Switch Energy Alliance: $5k → 10%Switch Energy Alliance: $3k → 10%Write Around Portland: $3k → 12%Emancipet: $2k → 10%Kinship House: $10k → 12%Kinship House: $10k → 12%Kinship House: $5k → 12%Kinship House: $5k → 12%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

IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
OK
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$615k · 35 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
38

Total granted

$615k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+10%

Still filing today

77%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $115k · revenue +42%
  • AZ
    AUSTIN ZOO INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +110%
  • RS
    RAHAB'S SISTERS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • HA
    Human Access Project
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    University of Texas at Austin
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc

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.

Health
2
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
6
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
10
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
11
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
12
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONUniversity of Texas: $80,000 · OtherUniversity of TexasCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $32,500 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINMD Anderson Cancer Center: $17,000 · OtherBIKE LOUD PDX: $15,500 · Other+40 more: $77,529 · Other+40 moreAUSTIN ZOO INC: $73,500 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN ZOO IN…+5 more: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles: $54,000 · InternationalAustin Pla…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…+1 more: $500 · InternationalKINSHIP HOUSE: $32,000 · HealthKINSHIP H…PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $15,500 · HealthPROVIDENC…Texas Children's Hospital: $2,000 · HealthPERIOD INC: $2,000 · Health+8 more: $7,150 · Health+8 moreRAHAB'S SISTERS: $55,000 · Human ServicesRAHAB'S S…USAHELLO: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · EducationWRITE AROUND PORTLAND: $20,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $1,700 · EducationSWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE: $17,500 · EnvironmentHuman Access Project: $5,000 · EnvironmentUMBRELLA: $2,500 · EnvironmentRoots of Success: $1,000 · Environment
Other$337,529Arts & Culture$78,000International$64,500Health$58,650Human Services$58,000Education$47,700Environment$26,000

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 budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN ZOO INC: $73,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRAHAB'S SISTERS: $55,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles: $54,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKINSHIP HOUSE: $32,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWRITE AROUND PORTLAND: $20,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFore Stark County Youth Development Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGlencoe Elementary PTA: $7,500 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMANCIPET INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Access Project: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPEAR: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetContinental Resources Community Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUSAHELLO: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUMBRELLA: $2,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: $2,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERIOD INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEA TURTLE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLINS HOPE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOR THE GIRLS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEXODUS 17: $1,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANHANDLE DOWN SYNDROME GUILD: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPORTLAND STREET MEDICINE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Equi Institute: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON WALKS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRoots of Success: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTI CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SUNSET MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN): $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 440 INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Travis Education Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $200 over 2y, 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 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 HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
  • Who funds Human Access Project ↗
  • Who funds PEAR ↗
  • Who funds Continental Resources Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds USAHELLO ↗
  • Who funds UMBRELLA ↗
  • Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds PERIOD INC ↗
  • Who funds SEA TURTLE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLINS HOPE ↗
  • Who funds FOR THE GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds EXODUS 17 ↗

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.

Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationAustin Community Foun…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Larson LegacyThe Reser Family Foun…Meyer Memorial TrustHwirwin & Dch Irwin F…Sangham FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…Hoover Family Foundat…
Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation TrustOR24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mark and Tracie Monroe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Tracie Monroe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
7report 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 Mark and Tracie Monroe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mark and Tracie Monroe Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 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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