Texas · Private foundation
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.
- $326k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $112,012
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Mani Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $326k | 76% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $137k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $174k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $181k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $162k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $109k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $138k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $62k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self Enquiry Life Fellowship | $689,112 | 9 | 9% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pratham USA | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Every Org | $33,851 | 1 | n/a |
| Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| All India Movement for Seva Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sundance Institute | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Daya Inc | $24,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mani Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Mani Family Foundation
- How much does Mani Family Foundation give?
- Mani Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $325,964 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mani Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Arts & Culture (9%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are Mani Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Self Enquiry Life Fellowship ($689k), The Houston Food Bank ($45k), Pratham USA ($45k).
- Does Mani Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mani Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mani Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, Ramesh and Radhika Hariharan Foundation.
- Where is Mani Family Foundation based?
- Mani Family Foundation is based in TX.
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