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Montague Family Charitable 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
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$176kHealth$169kHuman Services$111kEducation$68kArts & Culture$56kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$12kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$3,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY UROLOGY INC$150,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$7,500
WISDOM FARM$7,500
OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH$6,600
ST MARY'S CHURCH$5,500
ST GREGORY THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,500
ST MARY STAR OF THE SEA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,750
TEDDI PROJECT$3,000
BUFFALO CITY MISSIONS$1,000
HOPE CHEST$850
MORTE MARINE LABORATORY$500
THE JOHN AND MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART$500
THE COMPANIONS OF ST ANTHONY$100
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $10k → 14%CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $5k → 14%CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $5k → 14%CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $5k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%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

IL
NY
IA
IN
PA
MD
NC
HI
TX
FL

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$469k · 28 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
32

Total granted

$469k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+18%

Still filing today

25%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +29%
  • CS
    CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • SB
    ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +81%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MI
    MUSIC IS ART
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -4%

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.

1
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ecmc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyClassical Music Performance…Medical Research FoundationsSenior Long-Term Care Facil…Homeless Services & SupportVolunteer Fire DepartmentsJewish Philanthropic Organi…College Foundation Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr21%33%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr21%56%20–35yr14%1%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
3,120/31,772

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 65 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $61,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUPON THIS ROCK — $50,000 · OtherUPON THIS ROCKCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $43,789 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESST GREGORY THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — $43,000 · OtherST GREGORY THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHST MARY'S CHURCH — $40,060 · OtherST MARY'S CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY — $30,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSAINT GREGORY THE GREAT — $26,125 · OtherSAINT GREGORY THE GREATOUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH — $18,850 · OtherST MARY'S — $17,970 · Other+38 more — $112,990 · Other+38 moreUNIVERSITY UROLOGY INC — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY UROLOGY INCST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY — $27,000 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER+1 more — $250 · EducationCHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $1,250 · Human ServicesO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC — $2,500 · HealthHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC — $1,250 · HealthECMC FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $1,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $500 · HealthMUSIC IS ART — $5,100 · Arts & CultureTHE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $900 · Arts & CultureHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropySUMMIT FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE — $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCLARENCE CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $350 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$444,684Education$202,250Human Services$26,250Health$8,750Arts & Culture$6,000Philanthropy$3,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,850

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 budgetUNIVERSITY UROLOGY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC IS ART — $5,100 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $2,535 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARENCE CENTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPets for Vets Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNIVERSITY UROLOGY INC
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MUSIC IS ART
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
  • Who funds O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC
  • Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE
  • Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC
  • Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION INC

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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Montague Family Charitable 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report 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, 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.

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 65 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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