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The Maria and Steven Mungo Foundation at a glance

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The Maria and Steven Mungo Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$572kEducation$213kHuman Services$156kHealth$121kInternational$74kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kAnimals$20kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $276k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$1,050,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$600,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$176,000
CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$25,000
ELKS RIVER HELPING HANDS$20,000
PAWMETTO LIFELINE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CAMP COLE$10,000
FIRST TEE OF CHARLESON$10,000
TRIDENT UNITED WAY$10,000
COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE$10,000
GREEN HEART PROJECT INC$10,000
CHS PARKS CONSERVANCY$2,500
REALTORS RELIEF FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ELKS RIVER HELPING HANDS: $101k → 21%ELKS RIVER HELPING HANDS: $55k → 21%ELKS RIVER HELPING HANDS: $20k → 21%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 11 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$3.1M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+11%

Still filing today

91%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • RS
    Roper St Francis Foundation
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +176%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $670k · revenue +14%
  • GH
    Green Heart Project Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $78k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - HOPE LODGE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • FD
    FRIEDKIN DISASTER FUND OPERATED BY GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TT
    TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -8%
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
Roper St Francis Physicians Network

Healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence.

Health
2
Roper Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
3
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.

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4
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
5
Prisma Health

Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.

Health
6
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
7
Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute at Rsfh

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
8
Clemson University Research Foundation

To generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university discoveries to create new products and services for public use and benefit.

Education
9
Roper St Francis Healthcare

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
10
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
11
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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12
South Carolina Research Foundation

the south carolina research foundation operates for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina. These activities include but are not limited to promoting, encouraging, and aiding scientific research…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trident United Way; the most unlike its peers is Green Heart Project 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOFFORD COLLEGE: $803,040 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGELOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $670,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC+10 more: $121,360 · Other+10 moreRoper St Francis Foundation: $1,125,000 · HealthRoper St Francis Foundation+2 more: $31,069 · HealthELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $175,945 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $88,860 · ReligionGreen Heart Project Inc: $78,000 · EnvironmentThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $5,000 · EnvironmentPAWMETTO LIFELINE: $35,000 · Animals
Other$1,594,400Health$1,156,069Human Services$185,945Education$110,000Religion$88,860Environment$83,000Animals$35,000

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 budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $1,125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $803,040 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $670,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $175,945 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $88,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $78,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetPAWMETTO LIFELINE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $28,569 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $2,500 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.

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.

Dominion Energy Chari…Raymond James Charita…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Maria and Steven Mungo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maria and Steven Mungo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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

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    How do I get to The Maria and Steven Mungo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Maria and Steven Mungo 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 23 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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