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The Monsen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$143
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$83kInternational$81kHuman Services$29kHealth$25kReligion$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPublic Benefit$9kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$143
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$143
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SINGLETON MOMS: $200 → 11%PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $200 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $500 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%MERCY CHEF'S: $1k → 20%GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $500 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $500 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%MERCY CHEF'S: $700 → 20%PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $200 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $250 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%MERCY CHEF'S: $700 → 20%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $250 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%MERCY CHEF'S: $700 → 20%PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $200 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $250 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%MERCY CHEF'S: $700 → 20%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $500 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $500 → 10%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $500 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AVOW HOSPICE: $250 → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $250 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%MONTVILLE PBA LOCAL 140 CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $100 → 4%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

MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.
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.
$278k · 49 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 48 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
22

Total granted

$278k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+41%

Still filing today

61%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • PC
    PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +26%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +90%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +36%
  • MI
    MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • WC
    WOODSON CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $400 · revenue -21%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
4
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—
6
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
7
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
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
10
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rome Cemetery Association. 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

48 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. 48 of the 75 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)
44/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherPG CHAMBERS SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF LINCOLN PARK: $8,000 · OtherFIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF LINCOLN PARKTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,350 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY+39 more: $30,174 · Other+39 moreWINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC: $64,000 · InternationalWINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INCAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 · International+1 more: $600 · InternationalWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11,950 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,300 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…MERCY CHEFS INC: $4,200 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS …COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $1,750 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOU…THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $1,100 · Human Services+3 more: $800 · Human ServicesSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $11,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,200 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,150 · Health+5 more: $2,055 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,805 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,060 · Public BenefitSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $525 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400 · Education+2 more: $200 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,650 · ReligionNARROW ROAD MINISTRIES: $2,750 · Religion
Other$132,524International$75,600Human Services$30,600Health$22,405Public Benefit$8,865Education$7,625Religion$7,400

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 budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC: $64,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,805 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNARROW ROAD MINISTRIES: $2,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $2,480 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE WAY PARTNERS INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRome Cemetery Association: $700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS: $505 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOONTON MAIN STREET INC: $350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTVILLE TOWNSHIP FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $201 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SINGLETONS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST HUBERT'S GIRALDA D/B/A ST HUBERT'S ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $25 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.

  • Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NARROW ROAD MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKE WAY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Rome Cemetery Association ↗
  • Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Monsen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Monsen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Boonton Main Street Inc: 80% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 75 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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