· Public charity
Monarch Joint Venture
To protect monarchs and their migration by collaborating with partners to deliver habitat conservation, education, and science across the united states.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION | $39,178 |
| WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES (WAFWA)WASHINGTON STATE | $31,398 |
| CALIFORNIA ASSOCATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS (CARCD) | $27,884 |
| PHEASANTSQUAIL FOREVER | $25,207 |
| METRO BLOOMS | $23,555 |
| POLLINATOR PROTECTION FUND OF LAGUNA BEACH | $21,500 |
| XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION | $20,000 |
| USA-NATIONAL PHENOLOGY NETWORK UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $14,074 |
| POLLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP | $6,817 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ARBORETUM | $6,668 |
| CIBOLO CENTER FOR CONSERVATION | $6,036 |
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 (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- CACALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS2× · 2022–2023 · $46k · revenue +377%
- PFPHEASANTS FOREVER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +36%
- MBMETRO BLOOMS3× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- PAProject Apis M 20 Incgraduated2× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +150%
- MFMUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +26%
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
To promote the appreciation and conservation of Washington's native plants and their habitats through study, education, and advocacy.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Ones Natural Landscapers Ltd and the most unlike its peers is California Association of Resource Conservation Districts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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.
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 CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METRO BLOOMS ↗
- Who funds POLLINATOR PROTECTION FUND ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds Project Apis M 20 Inc ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF PACIFIC GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds Native Plant Society of Texas ↗
- Who funds Pollinator Partnership ↗
- Who funds Oakland- East Bay Garden Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS ↗
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Monarch Joint Venture 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% 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.