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Mani Charitable 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.

$105k
Granted FY2021
12
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Mani Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 FY2021, the last year Mani Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $105k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
13
’18
9
’19
20
’20
9
’21
5
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$2.0MEducation$180kHuman Services$66kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$59kInternational$28kArts & Culture$15kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2021 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILDING CHANGES$25,000
YWCA SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY$25,000
INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,385
THE SOPHIA WAY$10,000
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERISTY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$3,500
ASHA FOR EDUCATION$3,000
NAMI EASTSIDE$2,686
PRATHAM USA$2,570
FEEDING AMERICA$2,500
AID INC$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIVE ONE DOLLAR A DAY: $100 → 10%THE SOPHIA WAY: $16k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ND
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$362k · 13 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$362k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+46%

Still filing today

92%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $90k · revenue +46%
  • AC
    API CHAYA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $59k · revenue +196%
  • IA
    INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • MP
    Maris Placegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +80%
  • T
    Tasveergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +93%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

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2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Perigee Fund

Our mission is to shift policies and systems to increasingly value and embed supports for caregiver and infant mental health in the places where families are during pregnancy and early childhood. perigee is organized & operated as a…

Health
4
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
5
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
6
Prasaad
Religion
7
Asha Partners

To eliminate poverty through the creation of sustainable and effective community development projects, and to create holistic transformation by bringing hope, empowerment, and healing to those with the greatest need.

Religion
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
10
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
11
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pratidhwani. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%36%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr14%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr14%90%35–55yr14%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,321

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,967,346 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $90,000 · EducationBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $25,030 · EducationUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $17,226 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERISTY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $30,500 · OtherYWCA SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BELLEVUE — $5,000 · OtherUPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES — $21,408 · OtherAsha for Education — $5,000 · OtherPRATHAM USA — $11,136 · OtherPLEDGELING FOUNDATION — $5,900 · OtherPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $4,593 · OtherMaris Place — $8,000 · OtherTasveer — $5,000 · Other+14 more — $11,950 · OtherAPI CHAYA — $58,710 · Crime & LegalBUILDING CHANGES — $32,500 · HealthNAMI Eastside — $2,686 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $1,500 · Health+3 more — $1,923 · HealthTHE SOPHIA WAY — $30,750 · Human ServicesHOPELINK — $2,500 · Human ServicesOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE — $2,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $1,500 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $34,235 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$1,967,346Education$137,256Other$133,487Crime & Legal$58,710Health$38,609Human Services$37,350Arts & Culture$35,735

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,967,346 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAPI CHAYA — $58,710 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $34,235 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES — $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $30,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $25,030 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES — $21,408 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $17,226 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $11,136 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place — $8,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION — $5,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsha for Education — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $4,593 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Eastside — $2,686 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPELINK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $1,123 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEDGEBROOK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSai Parivar Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKing County Sexual Assault Resource Center — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiran Anjali Project — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRATIDHWANI — $500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS OUT CANCER — $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMotley Zoo Animal Rescue — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE ONE DOLLAR A DAY — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Salesforce FoundationAven FoundationSatya and Rao Remala …ImpactassetsincAkila and S Somasegar…Naveen and Anu Jain F…Overlake Medical Cent…
Seattle FoundationWA24.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Salesforce Foundation · Aven Foundation · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Akila and S Somasegar Family Foundation · Naveen and Anu Jain Family Foundation · Overlake Medical Center & Clinics

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mani Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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