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Monis 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.

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Monis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving9$41k44%
FY202312$50k67%
FY20225$25k0%
FY20217$28k43%
FY20205$25k40%
FY20194$20k25%
FY20188$52k63%
FY20174$27kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$47kEducation$45kRecreation & Sports$41kScience & Tech$40kHuman Services$31kHealth$29kReligion$28kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
CA
CO
MO
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Life$45,75580%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$41,00080%
Family Assistance Ministries$29,50050%
Valley Children's Healthcare$20,00040%
Fowler Presbyterian Church$10,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$5,20010%
Valley Children's Hospital$5,00010%
Fish for Life Inc$3,00021%
Youth With a Mission$1,0001n/a
Prostate Cancer Foundation$75020%
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All grantees of Monis Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Life$45,75580%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$41,00080%
Family Assistance Ministries$29,50050%
Valley Children's Healthcare$20,00040%
Fowler Presbyterian Church$10,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$5,20010%
Valley Children's Hospital$5,00010%
Fish for Life Inc$3,00021%
Youth With a Mission$1,0001n/a
Prostate Cancer Foundation$75020%
Fresno Rescue Mission Inc$50010%
San Clemente Presbyterian Church$5001n/a
Special Olympics Inc$30010%
Monterey County Fair Heritage Foundation$5010%
Zola Levitt Ministries Inc$5010%
Easter Seals Central California$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Life: $45,755 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $41,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Assistance Ministries: $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetValley Children's Healthcare: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Children's Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFish for Life Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFresno Rescue Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey County Fair Heritage Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZola Levitt Ministries Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Central California: $25 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 13.

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.

Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Monis Foundation

How much does Monis Foundation give?
Monis Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $40,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Monis Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Education (17%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
Who are Monis Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Life ($46k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($41k), Family Assistance Ministries ($30k).
Does Monis Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Monis 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 Monis Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Holdings Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Monis Foundation based?
Monis Foundation 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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