Ohio · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $21,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Montei Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $1.1M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $1.2M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity - Midohio | $300,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kakenya Center for Excellence | $235,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Vista Village Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Flying Horse Farms | $160,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Mary's Meals USA Inc | $146,348 | 4 | 0% |
| We Care Solar | $145,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lower Light Ministries Inc | $144,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Gift of Adoption Fund Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| One Simple Wish Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Montei Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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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.
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About The Montei Foundation
- How much does The Montei Foundation give?
- The Montei Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $1,236,743 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Montei Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Human Services (19%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are The Montei Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Habitat for Humanity - Midohio ($300k), Kakenya Center for Excellence ($235k), Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ($210k).
- Does The Montei Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Montei 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 Montei Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Harry C Moores Foundation, Columbus Jewish Foundation.
- Where is The Montei Foundation based?
- The Montei Foundation is based in OH.
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