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Monaghan Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Monaghan Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Monaghan Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $445k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $216k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $116,200 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES | $50,000 |
| HELP OF BEAUFORT | $50,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $30,250 |
| NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNCIL BSA | $25,000 |
| NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| QUESTBRIDGE | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $9,000 |
| MUDDY PAWS RESCUE | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +50% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +69%
- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP7× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +14%
- OHOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +39%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -54%- COCHURCH OF THE ADVENTone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 66 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF BEAUFORT ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Muddy Paws Rescue ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
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: The Bessemer Giving Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Monaghan Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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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