· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MISERICORDIA | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| MERCY HOME | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SKOKIE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GLENCOE POLICE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOHN O'BRIEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $1,000 |
| SAM & MARY PALUMBO FAMILY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $250 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $250 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 48 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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