· Private foundation
Bear Manor 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENSION OF OUR LORD PARISH | $14,645 |
| CHRIST THE KING PARISH | $7,150 |
| HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL | $6,100 |
| CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION | $4,200 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,250 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO - LUMEN CORDIUM SOCIETY | $2,525 |
| DIOCESE OF JOLIET - (CMA APPEAL - DEO GRATIAS SOCIETY) | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,200 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (ASPCA) | $1,000 |
| PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE | $350 |
| THE TOY FOUNDAITON | $320 |
| THE FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION | $250 |
| ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL | $230 |
| MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOASCENSION OF OUR LORD PARISH3× · 2023–2025 · $26k
- CTCHRIST THE KING PARISH3× · 2023–2025 · $17k
- HNHOLY NAME CATHEDRAL3× · 2023–2025 · $13k
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO - 2024 ANNUAL APPEAL - LUMEN CORDIUM SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- DODIOCESE OF JOLIET - (2024 CMA APPEAL - DEO GRATIAS SOCIETY)one grant, 2024 · $3k
- FMFRANCISCAN MISSIONSone grant, 2024 · $300
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…
The mission of the american college of physicians (acp), www. acponline.org, is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. acp was founded in 1915 to…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
The mission of pharmacists is to help people achieve optimal health outcomes. ashp helps its members achieve this mission by advocating and supporting the professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory care…
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DOWN SYNDROME ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bear Manor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bear Manor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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