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The Monua Janah Memorial Foundation at a glance

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The Monua Janah Memorial 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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$331kArts & Culture$181kPhilanthropy$100kCivil Rights$100kHuman Services$47kPublic Benefit$20kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW LIGHT FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$18,193
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 (FY18–18, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAITRI: $37k → 10%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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$471k · 6 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$471k
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+16%

Still filing today

83%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesFood & 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

  • LJ
    LEILA JANAH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $152k · revenue -99% · 40% of their budget
  • NL
    NEW LIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +11%
  • CT
    COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $68k · revenue -76%
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
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund
Education
2
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
3
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
4
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
5
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
6
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
7
The Conversationalist
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8
Media Development Investment Fund Inc

Mdif provides affordable financing and technical assistance to independent news and information organizations in challenging environments, helping them to become financially sustainable. see schedule o for continuation.

Philanthropy
9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
11
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
12
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Art of the Matter Performance Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEILA JANAH FOUNDATION: $152,195 · InternationalLEILA JANAH FOUNDATIONMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $96,450 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCCAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $67,636 · InternationalCAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FO…FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $15,000 · InternationalNEW LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherNEW LIGHT FOUNDATION INCDJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $60,000 · OtherDJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK T…COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO P…MAITRI: $47,000 · Human ServicesART OF THE MATTER PERFORMANCE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$331,281Other$180,000Philanthropy$100,000Civil Rights$100,000Human Services$47,000Arts & Culture$21,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEILA JANAH FOUNDATION: $152,195 over 2y, 40% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $96,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $67,636 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $60,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMAITRI: $47,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $10,000 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Monua Janah Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Monua Janah Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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