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Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable 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.

$69k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$961k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$69k33%
FY20246$47k50%
FY20236$24k33%
FY20228$33k50%
FY202112$24k67%
FY20208$12k50%
FY201912$22k100%
FY201810$21kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$70kHousing & Shelter$59kHuman Services$34kReligion$34kHealth$28kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMisericordia Home: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren Outreach and Community Empowerment: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc: $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJuvenile Protective Association: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSkokie Country Club Educational Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetElea Institute: $1,930 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlencoe Public Safety Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarold E Eisenberg Foundation: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGilda's Club Chicago: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Adaptive Sports Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiant Steps Illinois Inc: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Dr Scholl FoundationIL17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert & Terri Cohn Family Foundation · Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation

How much does Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation give?
Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $68,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Housing & Shelter (24%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Illinois Foundation ($50k), Catholic Charities Inc ($22k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($10k).
Does Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dr Scholl Foundation, Robert & Terri Cohn Family Foundation, Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust.
Where is Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation based?
Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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