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Munn Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Munn Family Foundation Inc

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.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$438kScience & Tech$35kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $158k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$158,143
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$25,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$15,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL: $10k → 12%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%COLD SPRING HARBOR EDUCATION: $15k → 7%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $158k → 18%THE KATHARINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $10k → 7%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $25k → 9%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $10k → 9%RENBROOK SCHOOL: $25k → 11%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $25k → 9%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $15k → 7%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $25k → 9%RENBROOK SCHOOL: $25k → 11%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $25k → 9%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $10k → 7%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $20k → 9%RENBROOK SCHOOL: $25k → 11%COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB: $10k → 7%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%RENBROOK SCHOOL: $15k → 11%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 4 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$270k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+312%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
EducationScience & TechArts & CultureOther
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

  • CS
    CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +19%
  • RS
    RENBROOK SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +21%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • TK
    The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +312%
  • TB
    THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +12%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
3
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
6
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
10
Reed Institute

The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
12
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canterbury School Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $158,143 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $95,000 · EducationCANTERBURY SCHOOL INCRENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $90,000 · EducationRENBROOK SCHOOL INCPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College+2 more: $20,000 · EducationCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $35,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR EDUCATION: $15,000 · OtherMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$413,143Science & Tech$35,000Other$25,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $158,143 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Munn Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Munn Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 10 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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