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Monasse Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$48k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
12
Organizations funded FY2020
33%
First-time grantees FY2020
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98% of Monasse Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Monasse Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $48k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

16
’17
13
’18
9
’19
11
’20
1
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 16
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 33% of the organizations Monasse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202012$48k33%
FY201910$56k50%
FY201813$89k77%
FY201716$47kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$695kHealth$89kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$53kEducation$16kInternational$4kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Monasse Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp Sunshine Inc: $86,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAtlanta Chamber Players Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetAtlanta Union Mission Corporation: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Finley Project Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetRobert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Ann's School: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaple Street School: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Partners For Development: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe New York Times Communities Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHour Children Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hunter College Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Maker Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransportation Alternatives Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350org: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Artistic Activism Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetB'Tselem Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrooklyn Animal Resource Coalition Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens Museum of Art: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoulette Intermedium Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Time Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIrt Theater Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget2030 Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Pathways Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 34.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Monasse Foundation

How much does Monasse Foundation give?
Monasse Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $48,300 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Monasse Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Health (9%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Monasse Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Camp Sunshine Inc ($86k), Atlanta Chamber Players Inc ($40k), Atlanta Union Mission Corporation ($36k).
Does Monasse Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Monasse Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Monasse Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
Where is Monasse Foundation based?
Monasse Foundation is based in DE.

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 37 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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