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Manchester 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.

$668k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MInternational$259kArts & Culture$155kPhilanthropy$126kEducation$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHousing & Shelter$35kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $475k
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOF SUPPORT FOUNDATION$100,000
EMILIO NARES FOUNDATION$95,000
CUREBOUND$75,140
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$55,000
WORLD OF CHILDREN FOUNDATION$50,000
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION$50,000
NAVY SEAL MUSEUM$50,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES$40,000
LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION$35,000
BILL COOK FOUNDATION$17,257
BOY SCOUTS FOUNDATION$14,500
SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION$10,000
CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER$10,000
DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE BAHAMAS: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$594k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+5%

Still filing today

33%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalArts & 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

  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundation
    4× · 2019–2023 · $800k · revenue +78%
  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $155k · revenue -57%
  • WO
    WORLD OF CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k

Funded once

  • IR
    IDEA RELIEF FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • RS
    RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • WO
    WORLD OF CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -97%
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
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
2
Reef Renewal Foundation International

Our mission at reef renewal foundation international is to increase coral coverage and biodiversity worldwide by supporting our global network of reef restoration programs. reef renewal's network members are programs that are locally led…

Environment
3
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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4
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
5
Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment
6
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
7
Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

Our Mission is to inspire our communities to invest in health and scientific advances to improve the health of children and their families in Canada and around the world.

Human Services
8
Sea Research Foundation Inc

To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.

Animals
9
Reef Relief Inc

Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem

Environment
10
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
11
CancerFree Kids

CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…

Health
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Emilio Nares Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sharp Healthcare Foundation: $800,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare FoundationCUREBOUND: $115,140 · HealthCUREBOUNDEmilio Nares Foundation: $95,000 · HealthEmilio Nares Foundation+3 more: $50,000 · HealthWORLD OF CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherWORLD OF CHILDREN FOUNDATIONTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $100,000 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTERSOF SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSOF SUPPORT FOUNDATIONGLOBAL COMMUNITIES: $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL COMMUNITIESNAVY SEAL MUSEUM: $50,000 · OtherNAVY SEAL MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIDEA RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Other+23 more: $140,377 · Other+23 moreRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $155,000 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILD…RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyRICHARD SA…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC: $29,257 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $5,000 · InternationalCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $10,000 · Crime & LegalNational Association of Bahamas Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Health$1,060,140Other$670,377Philanthropy$185,000Education$50,000International$39,257Crime & Legal$10,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $800,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCUREBOUND: $115,140 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIDEA RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC: $29,257 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetRICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBahamas Hope Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetNational Association of Bahamas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA MUSICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAHAMAS HURRICANE RESTORATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% 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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…Price Philanthropies …Sempra FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Manchester Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Manchester Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 45 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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