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Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation

Supports other irs section 501(c)(3) charities, in pursuit of charitable missions in youth sports scholarships, health & fitness & other philanthropic activities.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$492k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$2.8MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$647kPublic Safety & Disaster$587kPhilanthropy$507kYouth Development$497kFood & Nutrition$467kAnimals$427kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $2,770,627, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,865,128 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,501 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $618k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $782k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$17,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DC Fire & Emergency Medical Services FDN$492,427
US Figure Skating Association$442,427
Greater Washington Community Foundation$417,427
KABOOM$107,843
FRIENDS OF FORT DUPONT ICE ARENA$100,000
USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program$75,000
FIGHT FOR CHILDERN$73,322
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$61,656
POTOMAC VALLEY AMATEUR HOCKEY$60,000
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy$54,578
UNITED HEROES LEAGUE$50,000
DC Firefighters Burn Foundation$50,000
American Special Hockey Assocation$50,000
Make A Wish Mid-Atlantic$50,000
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society$50,000
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 (FY17–25, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Ladd Foundation (1616): $15k → 14%DELIVERING GOOD: $25k → 17%Second Story: $6k → 6%Playtime Project: $44k → 14%Homeless Children's Playtime Project: $15k → 14%USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc: $20k → 8%SMYAL: $42k → 14%SMYAL: $36k → 14%USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program: $18k → 8%SMYAL: $32k → 14%The TraRon Center: $25k → 14%USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc: $10k → 8%SMYAL: $20k → 14%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $25k → 8%SMYAL: $14k → 14%USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program: $75k → 8%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $11k → 14%Greater Washington Urban League: $33k → 14%Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy: $55k → 14%Greater Washington Urban League: $15k → 14%Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy: $28k → 14%The DC Center for the LGBT Community: $10k → 14%THE DC LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER: $16k → 14%Greater Washington Urban League: $8k → 14%Greater Washington Urban League: $8k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $25k → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDERN: $73k → 14%Fight For Children: $34k → 14%American National Red Cross: $50k → 14%Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative: $12k → 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

MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 60 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
49

Total granted

$6.8M
$801k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

93%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $778k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TA
    TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +75%
  • HT
    HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $315k · revenue +76%
  • MT
    MARTHA'S TABLE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • DG
    DC Greens Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -37%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • AB
    ANACOSTIA BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
2
Washington Nationals Philanthropies

Washington nationals philanthropies is the official charitable arm of the washington nationals. its mission is to help children, families, and communities thrive through sports-based youth development and access to healthy food. the…

Youth Development
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Washington Dc Police Foundation

The mission of the washington dc police foundation is to bring together business, professional, civic and nonprofit organizations and individual citizens to promote public safety by providing financial and in-kind resources to the chief of…

Crime & Legal
5
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
6
United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports
7
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
8
Children's National

Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.

Health
9
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
10
Washington Commanders Foundation

The Washington Commanders Foundation is committed to building a more vibrant and enriched DMV community by investing in education, honoring public service, and broadening access to youth football programs. By harnessing the transformative…

Philanthropy
11
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven by three…

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12
Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative

The mission of philadelphia youth sports collaborative (pysc) is to dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Nhl Foundation Us 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

126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 137 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/126
Grantees still filing
58/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KABOOM INC: $776,818 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INCFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc: $365,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Fort Dupont Ice …UNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $247,243 · Recreation & SportsUNITED HEROES LEAGUEPOTOMAC VALLEY AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC PVAHA: $239,373 · Recreation & SportsPOTOMAC VALLEY AMATEUR HOCK…LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $140,379 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD …UP2US INC: $123,970 · Recreation & SportsUP2US INC+11 more: $259,159 · Recreation & Sports+11 moreUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $442,427 · OtherUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $304,338 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANT…THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $141,121 · OtherFLASHES OF HOPE: $124,674 · OtherMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $276,866 · OtherMARTHA'S TABLE INC+71 more: $1,841,983 · Other+71 moreTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $475,332 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTA…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $214,674 · HealthPANCREATIC CANC…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $207,600 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER WASHONGTON DC INC: $66,012 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD…HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $50,267 · HealthDC FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+10 more: $140,069 · Health+10 moreSMYAL Inc: $143,650 · Human ServicesSMYAL IncUSA Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc USAWIHP: $123,290 · Human ServicesUSA Warrio…FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $107,552 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR …THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $82,610 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT…GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $64,250 · Human ServicesGREATER WA…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $59,733 · Human ServicesHOMELESS C…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $50,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC…+9 more: $139,656 · Human Services+9 moreGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $417,427 · PhilanthropyGOOD PROJECTS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $38,570 · PhilanthropyTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $29,050 · PhilanthropyOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $25,891 · Philanthropy+2 more: $18,000 · PhilanthropyDC FIRE & EMER MEDICAL SERVICE FOUN: $513,682 · Public Safety & DisasterHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $314,694 · AnimalsWOLF TRAP ANIMAL RESCUE: $102,500 · Animals+1 more: $9,612 · Animals
Recreation & Sports$2,151,942Other$3,131,409Health$1,203,954Human Services$820,741Philanthropy$578,938Public Safety & Disaster$513,682Animals$426,806

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 budgetKABOOM INC: $776,818 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetDC FIRE & EMER MEDICAL SERVICE FOUN: $513,682 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $475,332 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $442,427 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $417,427 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc: $365,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $314,694 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $304,338 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $276,866 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $247,243 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetPOTOMAC VALLEY AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC PVAHA: $239,373 over 7y, 19% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $214,674 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $207,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $143,650 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $141,121 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $140,379 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFLASHES OF HOPE: $124,674 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUP2US INC: $123,970 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUSA Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc USAWIHP: $123,290 over 4y, 23% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $107,552 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWOLF TRAP ANIMAL RESCUE: $102,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $88,622 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $82,610 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $82,037 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER WASHONGTON DC INC: $66,012 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERFRONT TRUST: $65,060 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $64,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFORT DUPONT ICE HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $59,733 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAMERICAN SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $59,159 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetAnacostia Riverkeeper Inc: $55,512 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDC Greens Inc: $54,707 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WESTLEY UNSELD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $53,919 over 2y, 64% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $50,267 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANACOSTIA BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $46,090 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $42,545 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKID POWER INC: $39,600 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $38,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $37,541 over 3y, 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…United Way of the Nat…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…Clark Charitable Foun…John Edward Fowler Me…Corina Higginson Trus…William S Abell Found…Dimick Foundation Joh…Congressional Sports …USA Hockey Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC50.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Congressional Sports for Charity · USA Hockey 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 Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Usa Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc Usawihp: 37% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Monumental Sports & Entertainment 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 137 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 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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