Montauk Foundation
Canton, OH · EIN 34-1411177. Reported 110 grants totalling $1,086,000 to 38 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Montauk Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystic Schooners | Mystic, CT | $230,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Stonington Historical Society | Stonington, CT | $105,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $85,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Phillips Academy | Andover, MA | $81,000 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pine Point School Inc | Stonington, CT | $64,500 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| La Grua Foundation | Stonington, CT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Farm School | Athol, MA | $50,000 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fayerweather Street School | Cambridge, MA | $30,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Base Inc | Roxbury, MA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Everglades Foundation | Palmetto Bay, FL | $30,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Maine Farmland Trust | Belfast, ME | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mspca - Angell | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of Eastern Ct | New London, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Expressiones Cultural Center | New London, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New England Science and Sailing Fdn | Stonington, CT | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stand Up for Animals | Westerly, RI | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Global Impact | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| James Merrill House | Stonington, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Padi Foundation - Project Aware | Rancho Santa Margarita, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Parliamentarians for Global Action | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Youth Guidance - Bam Program Boston | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Smith College | Northampton, MA | $14,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Impact Reading | New York, NY | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Phillips Academy - Vendor | Andover, MA | $11,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester | Dorchester, MA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Garde Arts Center Inc | New London, CT | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Safe Futures | New London, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center | Mystic, CT | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ocean Community YMCA Mystic Branch | Mystic, CT | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Maine Community Foundation Inc | Ellesworth, ME | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Commfdnof Eastern Connecticut Inc | New London, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fayerweaterh Steet School | Cambridge, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Homeless Hospitality Center | New London, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Young Farmers Coalition | Hudson, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Play Ball Foundation | Concord, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| US Icomos | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ocean Community YMCA | Mystic, CT | $3,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
26 of 38 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Mystic Schooners
2024-2025 Unrestricted Grant - Massachusetts General Hospital
2024-2025 Restricted Grant in support of the Thomas G. Stemberg Endowed Chair - Pine Point School Inc
2023-2024 Restricted Grant - 75th Anniversary Campaign, directed to financial aid - Phillips Academy
Abbot Academy Fund 50th Anniversary Impact Report and Film - The Farm School
2023-2024 Unrestricted Grant - Global Impact
2024-2025 Restricted Grant
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 55 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 24 | $200,000 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 24 | $223,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $221,000 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $219,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $223,000 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Montauk Foundation has 1 of them, worth $5,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Garde Arts Center Inc | New London, CT | $5,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 53% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Montauk Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 200 Market Avenue N Apt 210, Canton, OH, 44702. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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