New York · Private foundation
The Thomas & Janet Montag Family 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 24
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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 | 12 | $3.1M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.5M | 68% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Asia Foundation | $2,580,000 | 4 | 2% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $1,725,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $1,100,737 | 3 | 0% |
| The Global Fund for Mental Health Inc | $235,000 | 4 | 18% |
| School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Equality Now Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Longhouse Reserve | $125,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Sesame Workshop | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($516k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation
- How much does The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation give?
- The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $3,180,400, out of $3,355,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (19%), Environment (14%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: The Asia Foundation ($2.6M), New York Botanical Garden ($1.7M), Northwestern University ($1.1M).
- Does The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thomas & Janet Montag Family 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 Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation based?
- The Thomas & Janet Montag Family Foundation is based in NY.
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