How much does Monimos Foundation give?

Monimos Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $502,111 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Monimos Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Education (3%), International (3%).

Who are Monimos Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Monimos Art Foundation ($13M), The Independent Shakespeare Co Inc ($470k), The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy ($170k).

Does Monimos Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Monimos 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 Monimos Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ventura County Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.

Where is Monimos Foundation based?

Monimos Foundation is based in CA.

Monimos Foundation

Monimos Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

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.

$502k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$242k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MEducation$533kInternational$418kEnvironment$379kAnimals$221kFood & Nutrition$120kHealth$103kReligion$50kOther$0

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $43k
$10k–50k18 grants · $218k
$50k–250k1 grant · $242k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL	$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
FARM SANCTUARY	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Monimos Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Monimos Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 39 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+35%

Still filing today

77%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +145%
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THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +268%
OF
OJAI FESTIVALS LTD
7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +15%

Funded once

AF
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
one grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +21%
BH
BESANT HILL SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $20k
OC
ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +35%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Ojai Valley School

Operation of a boarding school

Education

The Institute for Bird Populations

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.

Animals

Los Angeles Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture

California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment

Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Amazon Conservation Association

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…

Environment

The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment

The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

28/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$14,119,449Other$675,464Education$483,000International$415,000Environment$380,000Animals$201,000Philanthropy$87,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Monimos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monimos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Monimos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Monimos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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