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Money Arenz Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
13
Organizations funded FY2021
23%
First-time grantees FY2021
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100% of Money Arenz Foundation Inc’s FY2022 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. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Money Arenz Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

24
’17
6
’18
8
’19
8
’20
5
’21
0
’22

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

Median grant, FY2021
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 43
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 23% of the organizations Money Arenz Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Youth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
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
FY202113$27k23%
FY202014$24k14%
FY201913$23k23%
FY201812$23k17%
FY201743$78kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.1MEducation$33kHuman Services$32kRecreation & Sports$24kAnimals$17kYouth Development$16kEnvironment$14kHealth$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
NM
DC
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Resource Center$18,00050%
Promises2kids Foundation$14,00040%
National Repertory Orchestra Inc$12,00040%
Rubicon Trail Foundation$10,00019%
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative$3,20030%
University of California- Davis$3,0001n/a
Environmental Learning for Kids$2,10030%
Help Mito Kids Inc$2,0001n/a
SheJumps$1,50030%
Akido of Santa Barbara Aka Aikido of Santa Barbara$1,5001n/a
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Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Money Arenz Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Resource Center: $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPromises2kids Foundation: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Repertory Orchestra Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRubicon Trail Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetColorado Fourteeners Initiative: $3,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Learning for Kids: $2,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSheJumps: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGender Health Center: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa El Dorado: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Growhaus: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOak Park Sol Community Gardens: $600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetShelterbox USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcotrust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Botanic Garden: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Environmental Council: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for Conservation Biology: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Trust for Santa Barbara County: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Center: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalWild: $300 over 1y, 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 27.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The Corwin D Denney Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Money Arenz Foundation Inc

How much does Money Arenz Foundation Inc give?
Money Arenz Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $30,300 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Money Arenz Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (92%), Education (1%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Money Arenz Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Community Resource Center ($18k), Promises2kids Foundation ($14k), National Repertory Orchestra Inc ($12k).
Does Money Arenz Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Money Arenz Foundation Inc 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 Money Arenz Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Corwin D Denney Foundation, Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
Where is Money Arenz Foundation Inc based?
Money Arenz Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 56 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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