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The Mohn Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
States reached
$538k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% 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
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$500,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$249k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$537,500
THE NEW SCHOOL EUGENE LANG$500,000
Hammer Museum$100,000
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 (FY17–17, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
KY
DC
AL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 4 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
28

Total granted

$4.7M
$411k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+14%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.1M · revenue +45%
  • TN
    THE NEW SCHOOL EUGENE LANG
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.0M
  • AH
    ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue -45%

Funded once

  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +82%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
4
J Street

To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.

International
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
7
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; the most unlike its peers is Over My Head 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

17 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. 17 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEW SCHOOL EUGENE LANG: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE NEW SCHOOL EUGENE LANGIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · Other+16 more: $192,000 · Other+16 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,150,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO+4 more: $30,500 · EducationARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HA…+2 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $100,000 · InternationalONE MIND: $25,000 · HealthTHE LIFELINE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York: $3,000 · Crime & LegalThe Everychild Foundation: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$2,292,000Education$2,180,500Arts & Culture$407,500International$100,000Health$55,000Crime & Legal$18,000Human Services$15,000

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 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,000 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
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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mohn 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%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 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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