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The Montei 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MHuman Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$626kHealth$582kInternational$471kEducation$418kEnvironment$253kRecreation & Sports$227kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $931k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
$21,400
Median grant
12
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISTA VILLAGE INC$100,000
KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE$60,000
FORTY CARROTS FAMILY CENTER$60,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MID OHIO$50,000
LOWER LIGHTS MINISTRIES$45,000
HOME FOR FAMILIES$41,000
FEED THE KIDS COLUMBUS$40,000
FLYING HORSE FARMS$40,000
MARY'S MEALS USA$40,000
WE CARE SOLAR$35,000
FAMILIES FLOURISH$35,000
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND$35,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF OHIO$30,000
MCCURDY MINISTRIES$30,000
EMBRACE GLOBAL$30,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $719k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $10k → 9%LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED: $10k → 11%MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS: $15k → 7%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $35k → 14%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $30k → 11%A SENSE OF HOME: $25k → 14%LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $10k → 11%MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS: $15k → 7%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $35k → 14%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $30k → 11%A SENSE OF HOME: $25k → 14%LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED: $10k → 11%MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS: $15k → 7%A SENSE OF HOME: $25k → 14%MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS: $15k → 7%A SENSE OF HOME: $25k → 14%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $30k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $27k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $25k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $25k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $25k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $15k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $15k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $15k → 15%PATCHES OF LIGHT: $15k → 15%FAMILIES FLOURISH: $35k → 15%FAMILIES FLOURISH: $35k → 15%NELLIE'S CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS: $21k → 15%NELLIE'S CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS: $20k → 15%NELLIE'S CHAMPTIONS FOR KIDS: $17k → 15%NELLIE'S CHAMPTIONS FOR KIDS: $12k → 15%HOME FOR FAMILIES: $41k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 56 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
13

Total granted

$4.3M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-42%

Still filing today

73%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO
    4× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +97%
  • KC
    KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +300%
  • FC
    Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • VP
    Various Public Charities
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • VP
    Various Public Charities - See Sche
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCSES OF ALLENTOWN
    one grant, 2021 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Miracle Foundation Inc

A family for every child in our lifetime.

Health
2
Caring for Kids Inc

Caring for kids, inc. (cfk) is a private, non-profit, full-service adoption and foster care agency operating since 1995. cfk specializes in diverse and inclusive birth parent, foster care, adoption and behavioral health services. our…

Human Services
3
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
4
Wishing Star Foundation

Wishing star foundation's mission is to provide hope and lasting memories for children who are terminal or battling a life-threatening illness.

Unclassified
5
Miracle Flights

Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.

—
6
Children's Flight of Hope

Children's flight of hope (cfoh) provides flights to essential, life-changing, and life-saving medical care for children in need. together with our donors, partners, and champions, we help ease the emotional and financial burden on…

Health
7
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
8
Columbus Children's Foundation

Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.

Health
9
Make-a-Wish Foundation International

None

Human Services
10
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
11
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
12
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Tom Fennessymike Harden Back to School Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsChristian Youth CampsAnimal Rescue and ShelterWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr12%10%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr20%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%6%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%33%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%12%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,251

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various Public Charities — $1,118,868 · OtherVarious Public CharitiesVarious Public Charities - See Sche — $1,102,184 · OtherVarious Public Charities - See ScheHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $300,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIOForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc — $210,000 · OtherFLYING HORSE FARMS — $160,000 · Other+46 more — $1,656,596 · Other+46 moreGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPT…ONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WI…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $102,027 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S…A SENSE OF HOME — $100,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HO…THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $86,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS …NELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC — $70,635 · Human ServicesNELLIES CHAMP…FAMILIES FLOURISH INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FLOU…PATCHES OF LIGHT — $60,000 · Human ServicesPATCHES OF LI…MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesMISTY MEADOWS…LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE — $235,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $58,333 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationWOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $9,500 · EducationWE CARE SOLAR — $145,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN — $60,000 · HealthFREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC — $55,500 · HealthMercy Medical Angels — $50,000 · HealthEmilio Nares Foundation — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $30,000 · HealthAUSTINS HOPE — $20,000 · HealthMary's Meals USA Inc — $146,348 · InternationalCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · InternationalEMBRACE GLOBAL — $30,000 · InternationalVISTA VILLAGE INC — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFEED THE KIDS COLUMBUS INC — $80,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,547,648Human Services$838,662Education$477,833Health$410,500International$236,348Housing & Shelter$200,000Food & Nutrition$180,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $300,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE — $235,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc — $210,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetVISTA VILLAGE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS — $160,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc — $146,348 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $145,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $144,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $130,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $120,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $102,027 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $86,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFEED THE KIDS COLUMBUS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY — $72,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNELLIES CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS INC — $70,635 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILIES FLOURISH INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPATCHES OF LIGHT — $60,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC — $60,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $58,343 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $58,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $57,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC — $55,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetJORDAN RIESER LEGACY FOUNDATION — $50,980 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Medical Angels — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetIPODERACS CHILDREN FUND — $44,559 over 3y, 29% of budgetLITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC — $40,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetENVISIONING ACCESS INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEMBRACE GLOBAL — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTINS HOPE — $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOM FENNESSYMIKE HARDEN BACK TO SCHOOL PROJECT — $10,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetKIDSMILES PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationHarry C Moores Founda…Columbus Jewish Found…The William H Davis D…L Brands FoundationUnited Way of Central…Ingram-White Castle F…American Electric Pow…Nisource Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…Safelite Foundation
Columbus FoundationOH36.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation · L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Safelite Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Montei Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Clean the World Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Montei Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Montei 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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