Ohio · Private foundation
Louis L Manes Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $418k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Louis L Manes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $20k | 88% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $11k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $10k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $9k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $12k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beth El Congregation | $5,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Asheville Community Theatre Inc | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Smith Center for the Performing Arts | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville Art Museum Association Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville Symphony Society Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Summit | $340 | 1 | 0% |
| Joanna House II Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Boca Helping Hands Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beth El Congregation | $5,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Asheville Community Theatre Inc | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Israel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Smith Center for the Performing Arts | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville Art Museum Association Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville Symphony Society Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Summit | $340 | 1 | 0% |
| Joanna House II Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Boca Helping Hands Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Care for Cops Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Links Community & Family Services | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Goucher College | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.
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: Asheville Area Arts Council · Akron Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Louis L Manes Foundation
- How much does Louis L Manes Foundation give?
- Louis L Manes Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $20,621 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Louis L Manes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Religion (9%), Health (6%).
- Who are Louis L Manes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beth El Congregation ($5k), Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc ($2k), Asheville Community Theatre Inc ($1k).
- Does Louis L Manes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis L Manes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louis L Manes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Asheville Area Arts Council, Akron Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc.
- Where is Louis L Manes Foundation based?
- Louis L Manes Foundation is based in OH.
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