New York · Private foundation
The Ambrose Monell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 102
- Grants FY2024
- 113
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $9,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 108 to 141
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $94M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Ambrose Monell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 101 | $20M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 113 | $19M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 108 | $19M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 138 | $14M | 2% |
| FY2020 | 141 | $15M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monell Chemical Senses Center | $26,525,000 | 5 | 53% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $2,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $2,350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Rockefeller University | $2,100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $2,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington | $1,850,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $1,750,000 | 5 | 1% |
| National Jewish Health | $1,450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $1,250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $1,125,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ambrose Monell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 110 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · William Randolph Hearst Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Ambrose Monell Foundation
- How much does The Ambrose Monell Foundation give?
- The Ambrose Monell Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $19,888,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 141 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Ambrose Monell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (67%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (6%).
- Who are The Ambrose Monell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Monell Chemical Senses Center ($27M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($2.5M), American Museum of Natural History ($2.4M).
- Does The Ambrose Monell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ambrose Monell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ambrose Monell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Ambrose Monell Foundation based?
- The Ambrose Monell Foundation is based in NY.
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