Movember Foundation
Santa Monica, CA · EIN 77-0714052. Reported 82 grants totalling $12.9M to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Movember Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in medical research -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE H113).
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 29% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $78,458. Half of what it reported fell between $29,392 and $175,610; the smallest was $7,721 and the largest $1,384,584. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
20 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $3,512,914 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $3,777,289 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $1,960,464 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $1,458,488 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Womens East African Support Team | San Diego, CA | $767,999 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $679,410 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium - Prostate Cancer Foundation | New York, NY | $494,975 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services | Honolulu, HI | $485,124 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southcentral Foundation | Anchorage, AK | $445,535 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Responder Center for Excellence (frce) | Canton, CT | $378,445 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | $373,251 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $316,460 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $230,634 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $221,431 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $187,940 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $177,239 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $168,888 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Prevention Institute | Oakland, CA | $146,377 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Durham, NC | $118,837 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | $91,984 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sinai Health System | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | Normal, IL | $63,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Texas | Austin, TX | $62,938 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $53,256 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $43,076 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Australian Association Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $14,175 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $14,175 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Alliance of State Prostate Cancer Coalitions | Los Angeles, CA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native Action Inc | Lame Deer, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $8,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $7,721 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 31 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Prostate Cancer Foundation
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH STUDIES - University of California San Francisco
PAYMENT FOR EVALUATION SERVICES FOR THE MAKING CONNECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM - The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium - Prostate Cancer Foundation
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE IRONMAN PROSTATE CANCER REGISTRY - United Women of East Africa
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE MAKING CONNECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM - The Regents of the University of California
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE TRUE NORTH GLOBAL PROSTATE CANCER REGISTRY - South Central Foundation
TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM FOR VETERANS, FIRST RESPONDERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $3,980,076 | $134,980 |
| 2022 | 22 | $3,306,740 | $70,480 |
| 2023 | 20 | $3,512,914 | $58,403 |
| 2024 | 21 | $2,091,331 | $54,134 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
59% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $78,458 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Movember Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1616 17TH Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90404.
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