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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR | $10,000 |
| ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC - ATLANTA SYM | $10,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE INC | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA CHAMBER PLAYERS INC | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $1,800 |
| ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION HCSR | $1,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE INC | $1,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MAPLE STREET SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| HOUR CHILDREN INC | $500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN NORTHERN CALIFORNI | $500 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $500 |
| LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCAMP SUNSHINE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $86k · revenue +31%
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION2× · 2018–2020 · $36k · revenue +10%
- TFTHE FINLEY PROJECT INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +278%
Funded once
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +54%
- GPGlobal Partners For Developmentone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -45%
- TNTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUNDone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +22%
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.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 37 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHAMBER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FINLEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAPLE STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Global Partners For Development ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds B'TSELEM INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ANIMAL RESOURCE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds 2030 INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds IRT THEATER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Monasse Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.