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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MARY'S MEALS USA$40,000
FLYING HORSE FARMS$40,000
FEED THE KIDS COLUMBUS$40,000
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND$35,000
WE CARE SOLAR$35,000
FAMILIES FLOURISH$35,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF OHIO$30,000
MCCURDY MINISTRIES$30,000
ONE SIMPLE WISH$30,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -42% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 80 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesMISTY MEADOWS…PATCHES OF LIGHT: $60,000 · Human ServicesPATCHES OF LI…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPATCHES OF LIGHT: $60,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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 budgetMercy Medical Angels: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEMBRACE GLOBAL: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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
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.

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

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 Montei Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Montei Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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.
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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.

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home