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Monster Energy Cares

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$801k
Granted FY2025still arriving
144
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$788kEducation$738kHealth$574kHuman Services$492kYouth Development$452kAnimals$137kCommunity Improvement$114kHousing & Shelter$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 144 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k129 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $515k
$500
Median grant
26
States reached
$129k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
High Five Nonprofit Foundation$200,000
Chapman University$140,000
15 and the Mahomies Foundation$100,000
The UCI Irvine Foundation$75,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$36,000
Robert Irvine Foundation$25,000
Special Forces Charitable Trust$20,000
Womens Voices Now Inc$20,000
Soroptimist International of Corona$12,500
Corona Police Community Partnership$11,000
Downey Firemens Association$10,000
Building Relationships Inc$10,000
The 43 Institute$10,000
Team Rubicon$10,000
Motor Racing Outreach$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Stepping Stones Agencies: $250 → 14%Minuteman Senior Services: $100 → 8%Boys Town: $50 → 12%The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh: $100 → 11%Casa for the Cross Timbers Area Inc: $500 → 13%Hernando-Pasco Hospice Inc: $500 → 13%Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocesan Counci: $500 → 21%Camp Southern Ground Inc: $100 → 6%Boys Town: $25 → 12%Hernando-Pasco Hospice Inc: $500 → 13%Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation: $100 → 14%Project Fire Buddies: $750 → 14%Miracle League of Las Vegas: $500 → 13%Active Heroes: $355 → 15%Hope Center: $2k → 14%Robert Irvine Foundation: $100k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $200 → 14%Building Relationships Inc: $10k → 8%One Simple Wish: $27 → 11%Hope Center: $750 → 14%Robert Irvine Foundation: $25k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $50 → 14%Hope Center: $500 → 14%Robert Irvine Foundation: $25k → 13%Methodist Childrens Home Society: $100 → 21%American Red Cross: $100 → 11%Russ Martin Show Listeners Foundation Inc: $500 → 14%Covenant House: $500 → 17%100 Black Men of North Metro Atlanta Inc: $100 → 13%Warrior for Children: $209 → 14%Hope Opportunity Purpose Empowerment Culture Inc: $750 → 14%Project Giveback Community Service Organization: $100 → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $250 → 14%World Food Program USA: $200 → 14%American Red Cross: $50 → 14%Laura's House: $263 → 10%Laura's House: $50 → 10%Camp Kesem: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 149 repeat orgs$551k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

149 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149
229

Total granted

$3.9M
$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+13%

Still filing today

76%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $575k · revenue +55%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $281k · revenue +19%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $213k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • UO
    USO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $73k · revenue -68%
  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +79%
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.

1
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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5
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
8
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
9
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
12
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Icon Baseball Inc. 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

344 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 344 of the 447 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
336/344
Grantees still filing
197/344
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The UCI Irvine Foundation: $523,767 · OtherThe UCI Irvine FoundationTHANKS USA: $75,000 · OtherUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC: $73,000 · OtherROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · OtherROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $116,750 · OtherAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONGOOD CAUSES INC: $103,000 · OtherGOOD CAUSES INCSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CORONA: $75,000 · Other+131 more: $651,016 · Other+131 moreHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $575,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPROFI…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $90,324 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE S…+21 more: $100,254 · Health+21 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $358,250 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TH…DIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFWomens Voices Now Inc: $40,000 · InternationalWomens Voices…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $22,750 · International+4 more: $10,110 · International15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Youth Development15 AND THE MA…43 Institute: $20,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $2,450 · Youth DevelopmentCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $280,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25,900 · Education+16 more: $30,082 · EducationDawson's Peak: $226,300 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $30,675 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,700 · Housing & ShelterTEAM RUBICON INC: $212,509 · Public Safety & DisasterRIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RELIEF FOUNDATION: $11,500 · Public Safety & Disaster+2 more: $1,625 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,767,533Health$765,578International$531,110Youth Development$522,450Education$336,482Housing & Shelter$314,675Public Safety & Disaster$225,634

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $575,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budget15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $358,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $280,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDawson's Peak: $226,300 over 4y, 83% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $212,509 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $116,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD CAUSES INC: $103,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $90,324 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CORONA: $75,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC: $73,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Voices Now Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRIVERSIDE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $40,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $30,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCorona Police Community Partnership Inc: $26,500 over 2y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $22,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVets On Track Foundation: $22,500 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetCORONA-NORCO SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $20,050 over 3y, 1.3% of budget43 Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORONA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $12,069 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RELIEF FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEVEL UP SONGWRITING CAMPS CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH POLICE AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOARDING FOR BREAST CANCER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPETERSVILLE COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDowney Firemens Association: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $5,052 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VALLEY MAVERICKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEHIND THE BLUE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWags and Walks: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS DE LOS NINOS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Edwards Lifesciences …Inland Empire Communi…Sempra FoundationAssurant FoundationCarmax FoundationJewish Community Foun…Matthew Hill Foundati…Linda I Smith Foundat…Thornton S Jr and Kat…BISSELL Pet FoundationPedigree FoundationArgyros Family Founda…
Edwards Lifesciences FoundationCA24× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Matthew Hill Foundation Inc · Linda I Smith Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Argyros Family 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 Monster Energy Cares funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monster Energy Cares. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity: 17% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Monster Energy Cares?

Find your warmest path to Monster Energy Cares 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 447 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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