Washington · Nonprofit
MONA FOUNDATION
MONA FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,003,753 to it, the largest being WAYFARER FOUNDATION ($1,830,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Mona Foundation does
Mission
Mona Foundation supports grassroots initiatives around the world that educate children, empower women and girls, and emphasize ethics and service to develop next generation change agents who uplift themselves, their families, and their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Digital Study Hall, India - $317,916 (aka Study Hall Educational Foundation): 1) 387,434 students were educated and 28,126 teachers were trained, and 2,139,125 parents and community members were engaged across all SHEF programs: 2) Aarohini Girls Education and Empowerment program trained 27,974 teachers and engaged 78,600 students 3) Provided 150 K-12 scholarships to Prerna Girls School AND 25 scholarships to Study Hall College 4) Funded 87 GyanSetu centers in urban slums and remote villages, reaching 1,645 students 5) Indias Daughters Campaign engaged 102,435 students across 1,611 schools, reaching 1,738,940 community members 6) DSH ONLINE increased subscribers to 130,000 with over 22.8 million views and accessed by 203,261 unique users.
$318,096 spentof which $317,916 as grants16% of program spendingEducational Initiatives, India - $272,000: To improve quality of learning in underserved communities, supported the implementation of Mindspark, Eis AI-drive, personalized adaptive learning platform across multiple countries as follows: 1) India implemented in Grades 1-9 across 2,733 government schools in Himachal Pradesh, reaching 93,743 students; 2-3) South Africa & Zambia expanded to 62 schools, reaching 13,700 students, and delivered Mindspark offline across 36 schools and 2 learning centers; and 4) Cambodia Launched pilot at 5 Digital Learning Centers serving some 500 students in Grades 3-4.
$282,000 spentof which $272,000 as grants14% of program spendingFUNDAEC, Colombia - $200,000: Supported three FUNDAEC programs: 1). Solidarity Fund provided scholarships to 177 young people (66% women) to pursue professional degrees, technical certifications and trade training. 2) Transforming the Environment - training and mobilizing 1,000 youth, parents, and teachers from 155 communities in agroforestry to enable food security and preserve the environment. 3) Preparation for Social Action expansion to the indigenous Wayuu community equipping 44 young people in 7 PSA groups with skills to become promoters of community wellbeing
$200,090 spentof which $200,000 as grants10% of program spendingDirect gift of educational necessities to enhance student academic achievement in various schools around the world.
$1,196,979 spentof which $819,641 as grants60% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,997,165.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $5.9M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MONA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Tammy Randall Wood
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $126k → $1.7M.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MONA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MONA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MONA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 64% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 67% · 2022 43% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of MONA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MONA FOUNDATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MONA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MONA FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONA FOUNDATION?
- MONA FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,003,753 to it, the largest being WAYFARER FOUNDATION ($1,830,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,003,753 in grants to MONA FOUNDATION, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONA FOUNDATION?
- WAYFARER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,830,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 49 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing