· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $6,000 |
| MUDDY PAWS RESCUE | $6,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +69%
- OHOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +64%
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $71k · revenue +265%
Funded once
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -54%- RPROSIE'S PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +39%
- COCHURCH OF THE ADVENTone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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How this is measured
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 66 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 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 FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- 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 ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Muddy Paws Rescue ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Monaghan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monaghan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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