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Monimos Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONIMOS ART FOUNDATION | $241,611 |
| INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| THE COMMITTEE FOR CULTURAL POLICY | $20,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $13,000 |
| SIDDHARTHA SCHOOL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL OUTLOOK | $10,000 |
| DONKEYLAND | $10,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| HAPPY VALLEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| CONCERNED RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL WORKERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Monimos Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TITHE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +145%
- TOTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +268%
- OFOJAI FESTIVALS LTD7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +21%
- BHBESANT HILL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
- OCODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +35%
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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Operation of a boarding school
The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monimos Art Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 54 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 MONIMOS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds HAPPY VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Siddhartha School Partnership ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds BULLETIN OF THE ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds Center for Regenerative Agriculture ↗
- Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
- Who funds OAK GROVE SCHOOL LLC ↗
- Who funds KATHMANDU VALLEY PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
- Who funds Concerned Resource & Environmental Workers ↗
- Who funds TIBET HOUSE US INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DonkeyLand ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ventura County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Shanbrom Family Foundation · John J Moller Family Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Finch Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community 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 Monimos 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.
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.
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