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Edward H Mank Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Edward H Mank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$223k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$781kYouth Development$604kEducation$230kHuman Services$34kReligion$30kCrime & Legal$26kSocial Science$25kPhilanthropy$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SQUASHBUSTERS$75,000
CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE$35,000
CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND$25,000
DR NINA TOLKOFF-RUBIN RESEARCH$25,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$20,000
ADOLESCENT CONSULTING SERVICES$10,000
MISC DONATIONS 2500 & UNDER$5,750
EQUITY SCHOLARSHIPS AT LONGLY$5,000
PUBLICOLOR$5,000
SISTEMA SIDE BY SIDE AT LONGLY$5,000
PRISONERS LEAGAL SERVICES$3,000
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY$3,000
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SO$3,000
THE AMORY FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DR NINA TOLKOFF-RUBIN RESEARCH: $35k → 7%NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $57k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $100k → 16%PUBLICOLOR: $10k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 28%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $35k → 7%NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $45k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $100k → 16%PUBLICOLOR: $10k → 17%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $30k → 7%NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $10k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $75k → 16%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $30k → 7%NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $10k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $50k → 16%DR NINA TOLKOFF-RUBIN RESEARCH: $25k → 7%SQUASHBUSTERS: $50k → 16%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SO: $8k → 17%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $25k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $50k → 16%THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SO: $8k → 17%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $20k → 7%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $25k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $50k → 16%ADOLESCENT CONSULTING SERVICES: $10k → 7%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $25k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%ADOLESCENT CONSULTING SERVICES: $10k → 7%DESERT HOUSE OF PRAYER: $25k → 8%SQUASHBUSTERS: $30k → 16%ADOLESCENT CONSULTING SERVICES: $10k → 7%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $20k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%MISC DONATIONS 2500 & UNDER: $8k → 7%PRISONERS LEGAL SERVICES: $10k → 8%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $125k → 16%ADOLESCENT CONSULTING SERVICES: $8k → 7%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $65k → 16%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $35k → 16%CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $35k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $28k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $18k → 16%COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 21 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
13

Total granted

$1.7M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+146%

Still filing today

33%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SQUASHBUSTERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $505k · revenue +19%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +224%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    2× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RU
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • DH
    DESERT HOUSE OF PRAYER
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $318,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $124,215 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITALCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $62,500 · OtherCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCEDR NINA TOLKOFF-RUBIN RESEARCH: $60,000 · OtherDR NINA TOLKOFF-RUBIN RESEARCHRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONADOLESCENT CONSULTING SERVICES: $43,500 · Other+20 more: $193,846 · Other+20 moreSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $505,000 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUSTERS INCTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $210,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S D…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $9,000 · HealthFordham University: $100,000 · EducationFordham Univ…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN…PUBLICOLOR INC: $30,500 · EducationPUBLICOLOR I…NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$852,561Youth Development$528,000Health$219,000Education$190,500Arts & Culture$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $505,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $30,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edward H Mank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward H Mank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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