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Mancuso Family Foundation at a glance

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Mancuso Family 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.

$231k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$315kAnimals$103kRecreation & Sports$103kArts & Culture$48kYouth Development$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHousing & Shelter$10kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIRE$150,000
BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANCE SOCIETY$25,000
PSMC$20,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS$12,500
TODD MISSION VOLUNTEER FIRE$7,500
RMSMLF$5,000
DRY CREEK HORSE RESCUE$5,000
WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC$4,000
ARCHULETA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK$2,000
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SIRE: $150k → 8%HORSEMEN FOR CHRIST: $8k → 9%WACO TEXAS FUTURITY LLC: $7k → 13%DRY CREEK HORSE RESCUE: $5k → 15%GRIMES COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 → 16%WCHA FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%EAST TEXAS HOOF AND PAW RESCUE: $5k → 9%BEHS: $25k → 8%WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC: $33k → 10%IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND: $10k → 11%HSPS: $5k → 7%SIRE: $78k → 8%TODD MISSION VOLUNTEER FIRE: $10k → 16%PSMC: $20k → 10%HSPS: $2k → 7%SIRE: $55k → 8%TODD MISSION VOLUNTEER FIRE: $8k → 16%PSMC: $20k → 10%TODD MISSION VOLUNTEER FIRE: $3k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $13k → 10%ARCHULETA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK: $10k → 10%PSMC: $10k → 10%PSMC: $10k → 10%LIVESTOCK SHOWS&AUCTION: $8k → 10%RMSMLF: $5k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $5k → 10%WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC: $4k → 10%WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC: $4k → 10%SAN JUAN BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN: $3k → 10%ARCHULETA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK: $2k → 10%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$503k · 8 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$503k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-34%
+29%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsRecreation & SportsReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SI
    SIRE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $283k · revenue -39%
  • BE
    BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue -34%
  • P
    PSMC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k

Funded once

  • WF
    WCHA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • B
    BEHS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • ID
    IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Red Bucket Equine Rescue
Animals
2
Border Horse Slaughter Rescue

Prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
3
Blue Horse Sanctuary
Animals
4
Shepherd Mountain Horse Rescue Inc

Numerous starving or sick animal acquired fed and nourished back to good health and rehomed

Animals
5
Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
6
Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd
Animals
7
For the Love of the Hoof Inc

Animal rescue, we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and rehibilitation

Animals
8
Always Dreaming Horse Ranch and Res

Horse Shelter

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9
Amador County Equine Sanctuary - Rescue Rehab & Retirement

The Amador County Equine Sanctuary is dedicated to rescuing and re-homing horses in need through adoption and re-homing programs designed to offer adoptable equine an opportunity for a second career and life-long safe sanctuary to…

Animals
10
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
11
Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab
Animals
12
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Impact Development Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIRE INC: $283,100 · OtherSIRE INCWCHA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherWCHA FOUNDATIONPSMC: $60,000 · OtherPSMCBEHS: $25,000 · OtherTODD MISSION VOLUNTEER FIRE: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $46,175 · Other+7 moreBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $62,500 · AnimalsBLUEBONNET EQU…HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $17,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…East Texas Hoof and Paw Animal Rescue: $5,000 · AnimalsEast Texas Hoo…+1 more: $500 · AnimalsWESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC: $41,000 · Recreation & SportsIMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHorsemen for Christ: $7,500 · Religion
Other$534,275Animals$85,500Recreation & Sports$41,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Religion$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIRE INC: $283,100 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $62,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC: $41,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorsemen for Christ: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEast Texas Hoof and Paw Animal Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGrimes County Animal Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 SIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN HERITAGE EVENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Horsemen for Christ ↗
  • Who funds East Texas Hoof and Paw Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Grimes County Animal Rescue ↗

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…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mancuso Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mancuso Family Foundation. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 19 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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