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Mani 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SELF ENQURY LIFE FELLOWSHIP | $112,012 |
| EVERYORG | $33,851 |
| SUNDANCE INSTUITE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,101 |
| CAPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON HUMAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MEENAKSHI TEMPLE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CRY AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ASPCA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| DAYA | $7,500 |
| ETERNAL GANDHI MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| PRATHAM USA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SESELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP9× · 2017–2025 · $689k · revenue +80%
The Houston Food Bank5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +36%- PUPRATHAM USA8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- EGETERNAL GANDHI MUSEUM HOUSTONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -67%
- MMFAHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TOTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -94%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Foster teachings of hindu religion
ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…
Education
Transforming lives of underprivileged children through education, technology, healthcare programs, and connection with a global network of qualified volunteers and mentors.
The very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Varasiddhi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds EVERY ORG ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL GANDHI MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CRY-CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds iEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds The Pad Project ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kamdar Private Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Family 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.
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.