New Jersey · Nonprofit
MONIRA FOUNDATION
MONIRA FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,400 to it, the largest being New Jersey Council For The Humanities ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $402k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $386k
What Monira Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to expand the reach and quality of art available to the public through residences, exhibitions, and educational programs that address urgent and ongoing community needs particularly as those needs evolve and change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Residencies - in partnership with arts institutions, the foundation supports residency programs in urban areas that offer studio space, along with mentoring and educational support, to artists engaged in various mediums.
$18,575 spent$2,405 earned by the program9% of program spendingExhibitions - the foundation produces original exhibitions by independent curators. Focusing on urgent themes drawn from current global culture, these ambitious displays juxtapose works by emerging and established artists in an atmosphere of philosophical, technological, and aesthetic experimentation. The foundation is also dedicated to mounting comprehensive exhibitions of work by influential artists from around the world, working with the community, and with other collections and foundations, to share their impact and preserve their legacies. In 2024, such exhibitions included "jonas mekas, open archives", which presented personal artifacts, items and memorabilia of the late jonas mekas, a pioneer in diaristic cinema, to the public for the first time to demonstrate the continuing relevancy of the artist studio practice.
$12,598 spent$2,300 earned by the program6% of program spendingPrograms - the foundation partners with global arts organizations to provide high-quality educational programs and events for all ages, including music and dance performances, film screenings, poetry readings, and panel discussions on art and politics. In 2024, such programs included "discovering", a monthly program welcoming the public to view art exhibitions and learn and experience the featured artistic practice.
$15,884 spent$300 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$169,064 spent78% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $216,121.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $481k to $452k (−6%).
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 0% · 2022 8% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MONIRA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Phong Bui
Director/co-chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $18k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MONIRA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
MONIRA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MONIRA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 54% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of MONIRA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MONIRA FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MONIRA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MONIRA 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONIRA 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 MONIRA FOUNDATION?
- MONIRA FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,400 to it, the largest being New Jersey Council For The Humanities ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONIRA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,400 in grants to MONIRA FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MONIRA FOUNDATION?
- New Jersey Council For The Humanities is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONIRA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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