· Private foundation
Monaghan 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S ACADEMY | $22,000 |
| REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER CAMPAIGN ST JOHN VIANNEY SEMINARY | $15,000 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $15,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | $5,000 |
| ORDER OF MALTA | $5,000 |
| LABOURE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| RISEN CHRIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CHILD FUND INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Monaghan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCOLORADO OPEN LANDS8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +215%
- CICHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +3%
- OOOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +246%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH HOSPITAL CARDIAC CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI FRIARYone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
As a catholic university sponsored by the sisters of divine providence, our lady of the lake university is a community whose members are committed to serve students by: (continued on schedule o).
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
To participate in christ's ministry of health, healing, and wholeness for: education, healthcare, and research by providing support to the lluh entities.
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIDERS OF THE ROCKIES HERITAGE AND TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
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: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Monaghan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monaghan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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