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Munsell Family Foundation at a glance

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Munsell Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$97kEducation$26kArts & Culture$26kHousing & Shelter$20kCivil Rights$13kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$6kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$774k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$25,000
MINT THEATER$10,000
FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY$5,000
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$5,000
ACLU$3,000
GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HIST$2,000
WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,000
MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK$1,000
YMCA$1,000
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION$1,000
LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE$1,000
SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$1,000
KPBS$1,000
LAMOINE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$500
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$300
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL: $6k → 14%BUILD A MIRACLE: $19k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $10k → 9%YMCA: $1k → 11%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $25k → 16%KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL: $4k → 14%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $1k → 9%YMCA: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $1k → 9%YMCA: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%YMCA: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%YMCA: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%BUILD A MIRACLE: $1k → 11%CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HIST: $2k → 17%GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HIST: $1k → 17%FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY: $11k → 11%FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY: $10k → 11%FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY: $3k → 11%MINT THEATER: $10k → 17%FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY: $3k → 11%FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $5k → 11%ACLU: $3k → 17%ACLU: $2k → 17%ACLU: $2k → 17%ACLU: $2k → 17%ACLU: $2k → 17%ACLU: $1k → 17%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

ME
WA
IL
NY
IN
OH
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 30 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
13

Total granted

$205k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+68%

Still filing today

57%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    4× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +106%
  • FB
    Frenchman Bay Conservancy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +249%
  • BA
    BUILD A MIRACLE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • II
    IREST INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • SF
    SOAPBOX FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $300
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $250
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
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
2
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
3
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
4
Friends of the Maine State Museum Inc

To preserve Maine's heritage through programs, publications, and events that promote, advocate, and build support for the Maine State Museum.

Arts & Culture
5
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
6
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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7
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
8
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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9
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
10
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
11
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
12
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grand Canyon Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Acadia Repertory Theatre 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

23 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. 23 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINT THEATER: $16,100 · OtherMINT THEATERACLU: $13,100 · OtherACLUKEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INC: $10,700 · OtherKEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INCCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $10,100 · OtherCHI OMEGA FOUNDATIONWYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $7,750 · OtherWYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATIONGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HIST: $7,325 · OtherGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTYMCA: $5,750 · OtherYMCAMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $5,000 · OtherMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve+20 more: $14,367 · Other+20 moreMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $37,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage TrustFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $34,000 · EnvironmentFrenchman Bay ConservancyFriends of Acadia: $10,150 · EnvironmentFriends of Acadia+2 more: $400 · EnvironmentBUILD A MIRACLE: $19,525 · PhilanthropyBUILD A MI…JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $250 · Food & NutritionMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $2,700 · Arts & CultureACADIA REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $1,250 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of Art: $300 · Arts & CultureMarin Museum of Contemporary Art: $250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureSigma Chi Foundation: $700 · EducationCHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC: $500 · EducationMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 · AnimalsROTARY CLUB OF SEDONA CHARITABLE FUND: $50 · Human Services
Other$90,192Environment$81,550Philanthropy$19,525Food & Nutrition$10,250Arts & Culture$4,600Education$1,200Animals$100Human Services$50

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $34,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBUILD A MIRACLE: $19,525 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INC: $10,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $10,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $7,750 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $2,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,450 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetACADIA REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $1,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Museum of Contemporary Art: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN CIVIC BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA MARIN BALLET: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEDONA RECYCLES INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 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.

  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds BUILD A MIRACLE ↗
  • Who funds KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADIA REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC CHI OMEGA OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds SEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Marin Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds MARIN CIVIC BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA MARIN BALLET ↗
  • Who funds SEDONA RECYCLES INC ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Arizona Community Fou…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Munsell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Munsell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    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 45 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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