· Private foundation
Mandare Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Mandare Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Mandare Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI OPERA | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $1,000 |
| Cincinnati Public Radio - WGUC 909 | $1,000 |
| INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 46% of Mandare Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +59%
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue -9%
- CPCincinnati Playhouse in the Park3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue -20%
Funded once
- GUGreen Umbrella dba CROWNone grant, 2021 · $5k
- W9WGUC 909one grant, 2021 · $1k
- WWGUCone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association 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.
Open a dossier: Earthward Bound Foundation · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Jewish Federation of Cincinnati · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mandare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mandare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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