· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of DONALD & PATRICIA MANHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $5,000 |
| MERCY HOME | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SKOKIE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| JOHN O'BRIEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $1,000 |
| GLENCOE POLICE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $250 |
| SAM & MARY PALUMBO FAMILY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +17%- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC2× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
- JPJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- MHMISERICORDIA HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +70%
- COCHILDREN OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENTone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- BNBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundationone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The mission of the daniel murphy scholarship fund is to give high school scholarship assistance and educational support to chicago students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. the fund seeks to make a life-altering difference in…
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SKOKIE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds Glencoe Public Safety Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAM & MARY PALUMBO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.