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Monroe-Schuler 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.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$342kEnvironment$174kHuman Services$107kInternational$103kPhilanthropy$88kAnimals$84kArts & Culture$71kRecreation & Sports$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$152,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$30,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$5,500
PLUMAS AUDUBON SOCIETY$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
SAFE HAVEN$2,000
MAKE A WISH$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLUMAS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2k → 13%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PLUMAS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2k → 13%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $10k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$983k · 21 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +134% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
17

Total granted

$983k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+20%

Still filing today

48%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • RH
    Renown Health Foundation
    4× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +633%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +134%
  • HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • RW
    RANSOM WEBSTER-AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $61k
  • SH
    SENECA HEALTHCARE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • BD
    BOOSTED DIPLOMASgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +138%

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

04Your field

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.

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Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
2
Healthy Nevada
Health
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
7
Nevada Wildlife Federation

The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.

Animals
8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
Honnold Foundation

Funding solar energy solutions, building capacity, and amplifying local leadership for those experiencing the greatest impacts from climate change, economic instability, and social injustice.

Environment
10
Renown Health

Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
11
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
12
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Women's Fund and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Renown Health Foundation — $201,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationSAFE HAVEN — $154,000 · OtherSAFE HAVENRocky Mountain Elk Foundation — $70,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Elk FoundationRANSOM WEBSTER-AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM — $61,000 · OtherRANSOM WEBSTER-AUTOMOBILE MUSEUMHAVA (Honored American Veterans Afield) — $55,000 · OtherHAVA (Honored American Veterans Afield)CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherWashoe County Human Services — $40,000 · Other+21 more — $242,000 · Other+21 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $102,996 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S P…THE EMPOWERMENT CENTER — $45,180 · ReligionTHE EMPOWERME…HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $75,500 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET — $10,000 · Human ServicesPLUMAS AUDUBON SOCIETY — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHUKAR CHASERS FOUNDATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $10,500 · PhilanthropyBOOSTED DIPLOMAS — $15,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationALMANOR FISHING ASSOCIATION — $22,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$863,000Religion$148,176Human Services$91,500Youth Development$36,500Philanthropy$26,500Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRenown Health Foundation — $201,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $102,996 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $75,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER — $45,180 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $34,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALMANOR FISHING ASSOCIATION — $22,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNEVADA WOMEN'S FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOSTED DIPLOMAS — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLUMAS AUDUBON SOCIETY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Renown Health Foundation
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT CENTER
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds ALMANOR FISHING ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NEVADA WOMEN'S FUND
  • Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
  • Who funds CHUKAR CHASERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BOOSTED DIPLOMAS
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada
  • Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PLUMAS AUDUBON SOCIETY
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches

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.

The Nell J Redfield FoundationNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Courage Sans Peur Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Monroe-Schuler 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Monroe-Schuler Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Monroe-Schuler 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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