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Munger Charitable Trust Number Three

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2026
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,907,691
Largest grant, FY2026
$11,434,800
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$89M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Munger Charitable Trust Number Three funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving2$13M100%
FY20242$24k0%
FY20232$26k0%
FY20222$21k0%
FY20212$20k0%
FY20202$20k0%
FY20192$19k0%
FY20181$10k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$52MEducation$160k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kitp House Project$11,434,8001n/a
Polytechnic School$84,75080%
Westridge School for Girls Inc$74,75070%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

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About Munger Charitable Trust Number Three

How much does Munger Charitable Trust Number Three give?
Munger Charitable Trust Number Three reported 3 grants totaling $14,347,321 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Munger Charitable Trust Number Three fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%), Education (0%).
Who are Munger Charitable Trust Number Three's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Kitp House Project ($11M), Polytechnic School ($85k), Westridge School for Girls Inc ($75k).
Does Munger Charitable Trust Number Three fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Munger Charitable Trust Number Three accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Munger Charitable Trust Number Three based?
Munger Charitable Trust Number Three is based in CA.

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 5 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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