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Louise M & Elizabeth J Manke Founda at a glance

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Louise M & Elizabeth J Manke Founda

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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$76kEducation$44kPhilanthropy$21kCivil Rights$20kPublic Benefit$15kHealth$8kFood & Nutrition$7kCommunity Improvement$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELCA MINISTRIES$4,800
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$4,000
ANOKA-HENNEPIN COMM COLEGE$4,000
BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE$4,000
UNITED FUND OF LE SUEUR$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY$2,500
LE SUEUR FOOD SHELF$1,500
TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH$1,500
LITTLE GIANTS PRESCHOOL$1,000
RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION$1,000
LEGACY FUND OF LE SUEUR ROTARY$750
TREASURES IN TOWN$500
Individual grant recipient$250
HAVE INC$200
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $30k → 6%ANOKA-HENNEPIN COMM COLEGE: $4k → 7%GREEN LAKE LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $10k → 9%COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT: $2k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $16k → 6%ANOKA-HENNEPIN COMM COLEGE: $4k → 7%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $3k → 9%BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE: $4k → 15%OTHER: $16k → 6%TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $2k → 9%MANKATO SYMPHONY: $250 → 15%WOMEN OF THE ELCA: $15k → 6%OTHER: $15k → 6%LITTLE GIANTS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 6%RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION: $7k → 6%TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $6k → 6%OTHER: $6k → 6%UNITED FUND OF LE SUEUR: $5k → 6%LE SUEUR FOOD SHELF: $5k → 6%WOMEN OF THE ELCA: $5k → 6%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%LE SUEUR ROTARY: $4k → 6%LE SUEUR ROTARY: $4k → 6%UNITED FUND OF LE SUEUR: $4k → 6%PRO FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%LE SUEUR ROTARY: $4k → 6%PRO FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%UNITED FUND OF LE SUEUR: $3k → 6%UNITED FUND OF LE SUEUR: $3k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $3k → 6%LEGACY FUND OF LE SUEUR ROTARY: $3k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $3k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $3k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $3k → 6%LE SUEUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $3k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $2k → 6%LE SUEUR FOOD SHELF: $2k → 6%LITTLE GIANTS PRESCHOOL: $1k → 6%LEGACY FUND OF LE SUEUR ROTARY: $750 → 6%TREASURES IN TOWN: $500 → 6%HAVE INC: $200 → 6%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.
$228k · 14 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$228k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+11%

Still filing today

14%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k
  • O
    OTHER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $37k
  • WO
    WOMEN OF THE ELCA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k

Funded once

  • GL
    GREEN LAKE LUTHERAN MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • LS
    LE SUEUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • GA
    GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +4%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH: $65,847 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERN CHURCHOTHER: $37,000 · OtherOTHERWOMEN OF THE ELCA: $20,000 · OtherWOMEN OF THE ELCAUNITED FUND OF LE SUEUR: $15,000 · OtherUNITED FUND OF LE SUEURRASMUSSEN FOUNDATION: $14,500 · OtherRASMUSSEN FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $12,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLITTLE GIANTS PRESCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherANOKA-HENNEPIN COMM COLEGE: $8,000 · Other+8 more: $27,510 · Other+8 moreBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $4,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $2,000 · EducationRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyLE SUEUR FOOD SHELF INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionTREASURES IN TOWN INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$223,357Education$8,500Philanthropy$8,000Food & Nutrition$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLE SUEUR FOOD SHELF INC: $6,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $2,000 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 RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LE SUEUR FOOD SHELF INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
  • Who funds TREASURES IN TOWN INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louise M & Elizabeth J Manke Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louise M & Elizabeth J Manke Founda. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Louise M & Elizabeth J Manke Founda?

    Find your warmest path to Louise M & Elizabeth J Manke Founda through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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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