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The Mohn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$500,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$537,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 29
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$249k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations The Mohn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20203$1.1M0%
FY20194$1.2M0%
FY20186$1.2M50%
FY201729$1.5Mn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$2.0MInternational$100kHealth$42kHuman Services$30kCivil Rights$18kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
KY
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mohn Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $2,150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Medical Corps: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Mind: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lifeline Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Everychild Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBring on the Music Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLos Angeles Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Roads School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Mohn Family Foundation

How much does The Mohn Family Foundation give?
The Mohn Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,137,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Mohn Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (40%), International (2%).
Who are The Mohn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Art Institute of Chicago ($2.1M), Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc ($400k), International Medical Corps ($100k).
Does The Mohn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mohn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mohn Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Mohn Family Foundation based?
The Mohn Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 33 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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