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Monticello College Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEWIS & CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $74,392 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $55,463 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $45,085 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE | $35,323 |
| NEWBERRY LIBRARY | $30,365 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY | $30,000 |
| WEBSTER UNIVERSITY | $25,471 |
| PEORIA PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $20,140 |
| VINCENT GRAY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| BLACKBURN COLLEGE | $19,949 |
| WYMAN CENTER | $19,942 |
| CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY | $18,378 |
| REGIONAL DANCE AMERICA | $17,400 |
| LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $15,298 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +76%- ICILLINOIS COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +28%
- CFCENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY8× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +35%
- RURoosevelt Universityone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -10%
- CCCOTTEY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
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Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vincent Gray Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vincent Gray Academy ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds MACMURRAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park School of Dance ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL DANCE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University 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.
Open a dossier: Council of Independent Colleges · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Lord Educational Fund · John R Lucash Scholarship Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Lilly Endowment Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment 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 Monticello College 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.
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.
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