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Manitou Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
164
Grants FY2024
206
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,750,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 267
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
22
Total assets, FY2024
$778M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Manitou Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving159$18M17%
FY2023206$36M18%
FY2022260$31M22%
FY2021267$28M23%
FY2020258$23M46%
FY2019220$20M100%
FY20181$4.0M0%
FY20171$2.6Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$45MPhilanthropy$37MArts & Culture$24MEnvironment$24MHealth$12MRecreation & Sports$9.1MAnimals$6.3MHuman Services$4.9MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 443 grantees
All grantees of Manitou Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Khr McNeely Family Foundation$14,004,70516%
Franklin Switzerland Inc$13,950,000515%
University of Minnesota Foundation$5,970,00040%
Ganna Walska Lotusland$4,900,000634%
Usta Foundation Incorporated$4,340,000612%
College of St Scholastica Inc$3,725,00061%
Century College Foundation$2,790,000498%
International Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated$2,200,00025%
Sonoma Valley Film Festival$2,135,000563%
Gwendolyn Strong Foundation$2,050,000157%
St Catherine University$2,000,00021%
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc$1,625,00069%
Santa Barbara Agriculture & Farm Education Foundation Inc$1,500,0001n/a
Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc$1,300,000273%
White Buffalo Land Trust$1,275,000522%
World Monuments Fund Inc$1,250,00053%
Sonoma Academy$1,225,00032%
Conservation Minnesota$1,175,000511%
Save Venice Inc$1,115,00069%
Friends of Fai - the Italian Environment$1,050,000455%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles$1,050,00042%
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation$1,000,00014%
Hoffman Institute Foundation$1,000,00027%
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital$1,000,00010%
The Whale Sanctuary Project$980,000622%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$975,000511%
Community Human Services$950,00043%
Deetjens Inc$950,000420%
Whitney Museum of American Art$900,00050%
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation$825,00063%
Big Sur Land Trust$825,00043%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$810,0001n/a
Heal the Ocean Inc$800,000620%
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation$795,000516%
Lower Phalen Creek Project$740,000628%
Redford Center Inc$735,00036%
St Paul Urban Tennis Program$646,000621%
Solid Ground$630,00069%
Sonoma Childrens Creative and Performing Arts$600,000482%
Camp Mishawaka$600,000292%
Pets Lifeline Inc$600,000326%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$570,00061%
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation$550,000428%
Dignitymoves$550,00034%
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art$550,000516%
Allina Health Foundation$550,00021%
Yosemite Foundation$535,00051%
College of Saint Benedict$525,00010%
Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated$520,000619%
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness$500,00057%
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network$500,000610%
Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation$480,00058%
Rockhouse Foundation$480,000328%
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc$475,00050%
Sansum Clinic$475,00050%
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc$465,00067%
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation$465,00050%
St Vincent de Paul Village Inc$450,00030%
St Anthony Foundation$450,0003n/a
North House Folk School$440,00047%
State Street Ballet$435,000613%
Food Group Minnesota Inc The$425,00051%
Save the Redwoods League$425,00050%
Sebastiani Theatre Foundation Inc$425,000425%
Water for South Sudan Inc$425,00049%
Shane McConkey Foundation$420,000459%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$415,00060%
Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc$400,00031%
National Public Radio Inc$400,00040%
Tennis Patrons Assoc of Santa Barbara$400,000352%
Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance$400,000516%
National Park Foundation$375,00040%
Walker West Music Academy$375,00065%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$375,00060%
Truckee Donner Land Trust$375,00041%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$375,00043%
MIGIZI Communications Inc$360,00054%
Great Mn Schools$360,00043%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$351,50010%
White Bear Center for the Arts$350,00058%
Sonoma Overnight Support Inc$350,000415%
Cerenity Care Center - White Bear Lake$350,00012%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$350,00030%
Dream of Wild Health$340,00065%
Environmental Defense Center$325,00055%
Sonoma Community Center$325,00048%
Sandiego350$325,000521%
American Indian Family Center$325,00062%
Santa Catalina School$300,00050%
Moment Foundation$300,000242%
Minnesota Historical Society$300,00060%
Elings Park Foundation$300,00019%
The Montana Land Reliance$300,00041%
Lobero Theatre Foundation$300,00063%
Music Academy of the West$285,00051%
The Aspen Institute Inc$280,00040%
Ecology Project International$275,000412%
Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens$275,000118%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$275,00040%
Artreach$270,000319%
The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA Inc$270,000222%
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$270,00024%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems$265,00066%
Point Lobos Foundation$250,000610%
White Bear Area Food Shelf$250,00023%
Safari West Wildlife Foundation$250,000161%
Community of Recovering People$250,00023%
Courage Kenny Foundation$250,00013%
Pembroke Hill School$250,00060%
AIM Youth Mental Health$250,000310%
Sonoma State University$250,0002n/a
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor$250,00024%
Apis Arborea$245,000276%
H2o for Life$243,500127%
Minnesota State Fair Foundation$240,00044%
Sonoma Valley Authors Festival$240,000425%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$230,00030%
Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade$225,000310%
San Francisco Food Bank$225,00030%
Sicangu Community Development Corporation$225,00035%
Team Rubicon Inc$225,00050%
Robert Louis Stevenson School$225,00030%
International Surfing Association Inc$225,00054%
Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance$225,000577%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology$225,00010%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$225,00040%
Firework Foundation$225,000650%
Protect Our Winters$225,00014%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$225,00030%
Division of Indian Work$225,00061%
Tahoe Backcountry Alliance$220,000389%
Sweetwater Spectrum Inc$220,00048%
American Friends of the National Gallery London Inc$215,00019%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$210,00042%
Familymeans$210,00061%
Children's Museum of Sonoma County$210,000410%
American Indian Community Housing Organization$210,00062%
The Bridge for Youth$205,00051%
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota$200,00030%
National Tropical Botanical Garden$200,00051%
Freshwater Society$200,000114%
Center for Partnership Systems$200,000329%
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc$200,00040%
Marine Area Community School$200,00023%
Wildlifedirect Inc$200,000467%
Sanergy Inc$200,00042%
Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Inc$200,000514%
Mearth$200,000412%
Lakota Youth Development$195,000414%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden$195,00061%
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center$190,00042%
Return to Freedom Inc$190,00053%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc$185,00035%
Nami Minnesota$180,00052%
Saint John's University$180,00010%
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation$175,00060%
Friendship Adult Day Care Center Inc$175,00044%
Academy Foundation$175,00040%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$175,00040%
Musicares Foundation Inc$175,00050%
League to Save Lake Tahoe$175,00041%
Metropolitan State University Foundation$175,000210%
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc$175,00050%
Oaklandalameda Countyemeryville Firefighters Charity Fund$165,000146%
Hope Dental Clinic$165,00056%
Food From the Heart Inc$160,00068%
Sierra Avalanche Center$160,000320%
Walker Art Center$160,00011%
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc$155,00043%
Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance$150,000322%
Sonoma Land Trust$150,00031%
Purchase College Foundation Inc$150,00051%
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc$150,00051%
Friends of the Poor$150,000413%
Oakland Promise$150,00021%
Pacific Blue Foundation$150,000227%
Polar Bears International$150,00052%
Institute for Ecological Civilization$150,000214%
United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc$150,00031%
All Nations Rise Inc$150,000324%
Hope Village for Children Inc$150,00022%
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul$150,0003n/a
The Morton Arboretum$150,00030%
Minneapolis Parks Foundation$150,00043%
The Ocean Foundation$150,00011%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$150,00050%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$145,00060%
Easy Lift Transportation Inc$145,00051%
Santa Barbara Community Youth Performing Arts Center Inc$145,000322%
CARE4Paws Inc$145,00052%
A Purposeful Rescue Inc$140,00066%
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc$135,00060%
Santa Barbara Police Foundation$135,00058%
Twin Cities Catalyst Music Inc$130,000411%
Blind & Visually Impaired Center of Monterey County$130,000313%
Reef Guardians Hawaii$130,000623%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$130,00050%
Kid Scoop News$130,000317%
Global Film Fund Inc$128,000182%
Direct Relief$125,00030%
Homeboy Industries$125,00030%
Conservation Society of California$125,00030%
Claremont McKenna College$125,00020%
University of California Santa Barbara$125,0002n/a
The Royal Oak Foundation Inc$120,00014%
Northeast Youth & Family Services$115,00051%
Afs Intercultural Programs Inc$115,00030%
Leading from Within$115,00046%
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation$115,00043%
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness$115,00042%
First Peoples Fund$115,00041%
Sphinx Organization Inc$110,00051%
Friends & Co$105,00054%
Pacific Repertory Theatre$100,00015%
Vivo Youth Orchestras$100,000224%
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota$100,00014%
International Academy of Fine Art$100,00031%
Como Friends$100,00014%
United Family Practice Health Center$100,00011%
Network for Animals USA Inc$100,00013%
Thomas Cole Historic House$100,00042%
Dyslexia Institute of Mn Inc$100,00015%
Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County$100,00031%
Big Life Foundation USA$100,00021%
Mills College$100,00020%
Educate$100,00021%
Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara$100,00044%
Center for Contemporary Art$100,00026%
Northwest Indian Community Development Center Nwicdc$100,0001n/a
Transition House$100,00041%
Save The Children Federation Inc$100,00020%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$100,00020%
The Archive of Contemporary Music$100,000118%
Ventura Land Trust$100,00017%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$100,00011%
The National Museum of African American Music$100,00031%
Woodberry Forest School$100,00010%
23rd Veteran$100,000310%
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County$100,00021%
American Rivers Inc$100,00030%
Occupaws Guide Dog Association$95,000410%
Organic Soup Kitchen$95,00045%
The Seeing Eye Inc$90,00040%
Sonoma Ecology Center$90,00041%
Pacific Pride Foundation$90,00062%
Voena$90,000413%
Santa Barbara Courthouse Legacy Foundation$90,000272%
18th Street Arts Complex$85,00024%
Patriot Paws Service Dogs$85,00031%
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity$80,00020%
Smithsonian Institution$75,00020%
Bee Girl$75,000413%
Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade$75,00036%
The Family Partnership$75,00040%
911 at Ease International Inc$75,00026%
Monterey Museum of Art$75,00022%
Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation$75,00025%
Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center$75,00034%
Last Mile Health$75,00030%
The Actors' Fund of America$75,00030%
Human Rights Watch Inc$75,00030%
Wilderness Youth Project Inc$75,00031%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$75,00030%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$75,00020%
Cohen Veterans Network Inc$75,00020%
Aha Attitude Harmony Achievement$75,00032%
The Art Institute of Chicago$75,00030%
Operation Smile Inc$70,00010%
Pollinator Partnership$70,00042%
Leader Dogs for the Blind$70,00040%
Deetjens Big Sur Inn Preservation Foundation Inc$70,00014%
Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods$70,00042%
Tetiaroa Society$70,00033%
Custom Canine Service Dog Academy Inc$65,00036%
Sonoma Little League$65,000441%
Artescape$65,000311%
Agricultural Research Foundation$65,00030%
Metro Blooms$65,00032%
National Veterans Foundation Inc$60,00036%
22kill$60,00031%
Hero Dogs Inc$55,00032%
The Presentation School$55,00031%
Oregon State University Foundation$55,00030%
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund$55,00022%
K9s for Warriors Inc$55,00030%
Mayacamas Volunteer Fire Department Inc$55,000413%
Kenwood Firemens Association$55,000425%
Wild Seed Project$50,00028%
Lifting Hands International$50,00020%
Portland Museum of Art$50,00010%
Mountain Parks Foundation of Santa Cruz$50,00014%
Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Protection and Education$50,000137%
Xerces Society Inc$50,00020%
African Women Rising$50,00021%
Sonoma County Economic Development Board Foundation$50,000129%
The House Institute Foundation$50,00022%
The Harker School$50,00010%
Kiss the Ground$50,00021%
Notes For Notes Inc$50,00021%
Carmel Public Library Foundation$50,00013%
First Star Inc$50,00013%
Sonoma Botanical Garden$50,00032%
K9 Partners for Patriots$50,00022%
Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc$50,00011%
Detroit Hives Inc$50,000211%
Carmel Cares$50,000127%
Los Angeles Unified School District Education Foundation$50,00016%
Clear Path for Veterans Inc$50,00021%
Plymouth Christian Youth Center$50,00021%
Pollinator Friendly Alliance Inc$50,0002n/a
Calm Inc$50,00020%
World Animal Protection$50,00011%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts$50,00020%
Artula Institute for Art and Environmental Ed$50,00022%
America's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc$50,00030%
Ujamaa Place$50,00011%
Resources Legacy Fund$50,00010%
Animal Humane Society$50,00010%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$50,00011%
Summerland Beautiful Inc$50,000163%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$50,00012%
Fractured Atlas Inc$50,00010%
American Public Gardens Association$50,00012%
Portland Art Museum$50,00010%
Pilot Dogs Alloway$45,00021%
Hearing Loss Association of America$45,00012%
Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association$45,000215%
Planet Bee Foundation$45,000313%
Veteran Valor Farm$45,0002n/a
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$45,00021%
Operation Song Inc$45,00037%
Arts Mentorship Program Inc$45,000216%
Bee Informed Partnership Inc$45,00031%
Soldiers Best Friend$40,00022%
Veteran Resilience Project Inc$40,0002n/a
Joyful Heart Foundation$40,00021%
Jazz Central Studios$40,0002n/a
Montecito Friends of the Library$40,00038%
Black Fret Dba Sonic Guild$40,00022%
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine$40,00026%
Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc$40,00021%
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc$35,00020%
American Humane Association$35,00010%
Musicians on Call Inc$35,00021%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$35,00020%
Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Inst$30,00015%
Shelter to Soldier Inc$30,00013%
Vna Health$30,0001n/a
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$30,00010%
Project Street Vet$30,00012%
Romero Institute$30,00012%
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County$30,00010%
Kah-Bay-Kah-Nong$30,0001n/a
Sonoma Volunteer Firefighters Association$30,000120%
Wildlife Science Center$30,00016%
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive$30,00015%
Tribal Nations Research Group$30,00019%
International Relief Teams$30,00010%
Sarara Institute$30,00011%
Empowers Africa Inc$30,00012%
Operation Delta Dog Inc$30,000110%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$25,00010%
African Community and Conservation Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Immaculate Heart Community$25,00010%
Walters Art Museum Foundation Inc$25,000127%
Amazon Watch Inc$25,00011%
Nature Track Foundation Inc$25,00015%
Ohio State University Foundation$25,00010%
The Sims Foundation Inc$25,00012%
The Grey Muzzle Organization$25,00011%
One Heartland$25,00014%
Access Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr$25,00012%
Fred T Korematsu Institute$25,000136%
Amazon Frontlines$25,00011%
Steadman Philippon Research Institute$25,00010%
Honeylove$25,0002n/a
Minnesota Valley Refuge Friends$25,0001n/a
Project H O P E Inc$25,0001n/a
Orcas Open Arts$25,000111%
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc$25,00010%
Rainforest Trust$25,00010%
Publicolor Inc$25,00011%
Landmark Conservancy Inc$25,00011%
Lake Tahoe Dance Collective$25,00019%
Freedom 4 Youth$25,00012%
North American Japanese Garden Ass0$25,000117%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$25,00011%
Warrior Surf Foundation$25,000110%
Apopo US Inc$25,00011%
Elderheart Inc$25,00011%
International Center of Photography$25,00010%
Pan American Development Foundation$25,00010%
Kids for Peace$25,00018%
International Medical Corps$25,00010%
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center$25,00010%
Janes Fund$25,00011%
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition Dba Move Santa Barbara County$25,00012%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$25,00010%
Glen Ellen Firefighters Association Inc$25,000277%
United States Artists Inc$25,00010%
di Rosa Preserve$25,00012%
Friendship Home Inc$25,00011%
Austin Music Foundation$25,00016%
Old Friends Inc$25,00011%
Wildland Firefighter Foundation$25,00011%
Good Samaritan Shelter$25,00010%
Frosted Faces Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Madison Claire Foundation$25,000197%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$25,00010%
Eden Peopleplanet$25,00011%
Vestibular Disorders Association$25,00013%
Rural Development Institute$25,00010%
Minnesota Music Coalition$25,000115%
Friends of Vada at Santa Barbara High School$25,000110%
Columbia-Greene Hospital Foundation$25,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$20,00010%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$20,00010%
Amazon Conservation Association$20,00010%
Garden Court Inc$20,0001n/a
Twin Cities Music Community Trust$20,0001n/a
Urban Beekeeping Laboratory and Bee Sanctuary Inc$20,000278%
St Croix Trail Blazers$20,00027%
Humane Society of the Treasure Coast Inc$20,00011%
Youth Radio$20,00010%
Renown Health Foundation$18,00010%
We Can Ride Inc$15,00012%
Maximum Hope Foundation$15,000110%
Stop Online Puppy Mills$15,000117%
Amazon Conservation Team$15,00010%
Washington County Historical Society$15,00012%
Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue Inc$15,00011%
American Dance Movement$15,00012%
Sonoma Stack Baseball Inc$15,0001n/a
Childrens Creative Project$15,00011%
Lights Up Theater Inc$15,00017%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$15,00010%
The Franklin Institute$10,00010%
Project Akilah Inc$10,00011%
New York Bee Sanctuary Inc$10,000134%
Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation$10,00017%
Bee Kind Mn Inc$10,0001n/a
Honey for Good$5,000121%
Pets for Vets Minneapolis-St Paul$5,000147%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Manitou Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 40 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKhr McNeely Family Foundation: $14,004,705 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFranklin Switzerland Inc: $13,950,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $5,970,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGanna Walska Lotusland: $4,900,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetUsta Foundation Incorporated: $4,340,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCollege of St Scholastica Inc: $3,725,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCentury College Foundation: $2,790,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetInternational Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated: $2,200,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSonoma Valley Film Festival: $2,135,000 over 5y, 63% of budgetGwendolyn Strong Foundation: $2,050,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetSt Catherine University: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSanta Barbara International Film Festival Inc: $1,625,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetCarpinteria Education Foundation Inc: $1,300,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetWhite Buffalo Land Trust: $1,275,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $1,250,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSonoma Academy: $1,225,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetConservation Minnesota: $1,175,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSave Venice Inc: $1,115,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetFriends of Fai - the Italian Environment: $1,050,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $1,050,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHoffman Institute Foundation: $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Whale Sanctuary Project: $980,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetMinnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy: $975,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCommunity Human Services: $950,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetDeetjens Inc: $950,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $900,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Zoological Foundation: $825,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $825,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHeal the Ocean Inc: $800,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation: $795,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetLower Phalen Creek Project: $740,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetRedford Center Inc: $735,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSt Paul Urban Tennis Program: $646,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetSolid Ground: $630,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetSonoma Childrens Creative and Performing Arts: $600,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetCamp Mishawaka: $600,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetPets Lifeline Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $570,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Public Library Foundation: $550,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetDignitymoves: $550,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSonoma Valley Museum of Art: $550,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetAllina Health Foundation: $550,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $535,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCollege of Saint Benedict: $525,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMontessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated: $520,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetNortheastern Minnesotans for Wilderness: $500,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Khr McNeely Family FoundationCA101.2× affinity48 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Khr McNeely Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Www Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Rudi Schulte Family 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.

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Find your warmest path to Manitou Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Manitou Fund

How much does Manitou Fund give?
Manitou Fund reported 164 grants totaling $20,100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 267 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Manitou Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Philanthropy (21%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Manitou Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Khr McNeely Family Foundation ($14M), Franklin Switzerland Inc ($14M), University of Minnesota Foundation ($6.0M).
Does Manitou Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Manitou Fund 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 Manitou Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Khr McNeely Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation.
Where is Manitou Fund based?
Manitou Fund is based in MN.

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 536 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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