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Monarch Joint Venture

To protect monarchs and their migration by collaborating with partners to deliver habitat conservation, education, and science across the united states.

$224k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
55%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$21,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$39,178
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$3.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Monarch Joint Venture funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$222k55%
FY20229$119kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Environment$227kAnimals$97kEducation$17kArts & Culture$9k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
WI
OR
CA
UT
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Monarch Joint Venture by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts$45,70221%
Pheasants Forever Inc$40,00020%
The Sand County Foundation Inc$39,17821%
Metro Blooms$37,72432%
Pollinator Protection Fund$36,7642n/a
Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies$31,39811%
Project Apis M 20 Inc$23,78527%
Xerces Society Inc$20,00010%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$14,82620%
University of Arizona$14,0741n/a
Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc$9,17011%
Washington State University$9,1501n/a
Pollinator Partnership$6,81720%
Oakland- East Bay Garden Center Inc$6,41312%
Friends of Cibolo Wilderness$6,03620%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Monarch Joint Venture supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Association of Resource Conservation Districts: $45,702 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPheasants Forever Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sand County Foundation Inc: $39,178 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMetro Blooms: $37,724 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWestern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies: $31,398 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetProject Apis M 20 Inc: $23,785 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $14,826 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc: $9,170 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPollinator Partnership: $6,817 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOakland- East Bay Garden Center Inc: $6,413 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFriends of Cibolo Wilderness: $6,036 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Monarch Joint Venture

How much does Monarch Joint Venture give?
Monarch Joint Venture reported 11 grants totaling $224,451 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Monarch Joint Venture fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (65%), Animals (28%), Education (5%).
Who are Monarch Joint Venture's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: California Association of Resource Conservation Districts ($46k), Pheasants Forever Inc ($40k), The Sand County Foundation Inc ($39k).
Does Monarch Joint Venture fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Monarch Joint Venture?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Monarch Joint Venture based?
Monarch Joint Venture is based in MN.

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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $317k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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