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The Ambrose Monell Foundation at a glance

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The Ambrose Monell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
102
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$9.3M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$59MArts & Culture$9.7MEducation$5.7MScience & Tech$5.1MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MEnvironment$975kRecreation & Sports$875kOther$0
02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k36 grants · $905k
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+18 grants · $15M
$50,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER$9,300,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$600,000
DANA FARBER CANCER CENTER$500,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$500,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$500,000
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$425,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$350,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$350,000
WAKE FOREST BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER$333,333
Individual grant recipient$300,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER$300,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$300,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE$300,000
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$250,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$250,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%LEARNING ALLY: $25k → 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%LEARNING ALLY: $25k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $50k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $30k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $150k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $150k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 17%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 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

ID
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of The Ambrose Monell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ambrose Monell Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 29% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85M · 153 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

153 repeat relationships: 98 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
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Total granted

$85M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • MC
    MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $27M · revenue +66% · 53% of their budget
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +95%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DOUGHBOY FOUNDATION - UNITED STATES WORLD WAR ONE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • DM
    DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • NY
    NEW YORK EYE & EAR INFIRMARY
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue -11%
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 169 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/113
Grantees still filing
93/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $26,525,000 · HealthMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTERDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,500,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,000,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,450,000 · Health+21 more: $6,075,000 · Health+21 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,500,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERCLEVELAND CLINIC - GENOMIC MEDICINE INSTITUTE: $1,875,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC - GENOMIC MEDICINE INSTI…YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $1,825,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BRADY UROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $1,550,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER: $1,500,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $1,350,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $1,200,000 · Other+79 more: $18,831,666 · Other+79 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,350,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $800,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $725,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $1,650,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationDEKALB MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 · EducationACCESS BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL: $300,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $250,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $175,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $150,000 · Education+10 more: $690,000 · EducationCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $1,850,000 · Science & TechINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $1,750,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $250,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $650,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $375,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $550,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $250,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $125,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $50,000 · Human Services
Health$38,550,000Other$31,881,666Arts & Culture$5,775,000Education$4,465,000Science & Tech$3,850,000Recreation & Sports$1,550,000Human Services$1,480,000

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 budgetMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $26,525,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,000,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $1,850,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $1,750,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $800,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetMACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $725,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $700,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME: $700,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNorthwestern University: $650,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC: $575,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $550,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $400,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $400,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $375,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetACCESS BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL: $300,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $200,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $175,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% 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 MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
  • Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundRobin Hood FoundationNational Philanthropi…William Randolph Hear…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Mother Cabrini Health…The Bessemer Giving F…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Ambrose Monell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ambrose Monell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Ambrose Monell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ambrose Monell 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 169 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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