How much did MANITOU FUND grant in FY2024?

Education$38MPhilanthropy$18MArts & Culture$15MEnvironment$13MHealth$8.9MRecreation & Sports$8.2MAnimals$4.8MHuman Services$4.6MInternational$3.0MOther$69M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

hurricane doriandorian reliefamazon forestforest protectiontruckfaceexhibition educational

2020

covid responseemergency reliefeducation programmingfuturefirefighter'stechnologycovid joint

2021

galapagossummerland farmcovidhoney beebell museumexcellencemarine

2022

capital improvementselementarymarinefine artssurvolunteer firescience

2023

capital buildingwolfanimalshumanerestoration endowmentendowment foothillsfoothills preserve

2024

readingfine artsadultmeniere's diseasenorthnationsbuffalo

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 164 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k84 grants · $6.8M
$250k+25 grants · $12M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$847M

Total assets

Largest grants

SCHWAB CHARITABLE$1,750,000
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INC$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$915,000
ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$750,000
CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$750,000
SAVE VENICE INC$540,000
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$510,000
FRIENDS OF FAI THE ITALIAN ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION INC$500,000
BIG SUR LAND TRUST$450,000
REDFORD CENTER INC$400,000
DEETJEN'S INC$350,000
COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC$310,000
GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND$300,000
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA$300,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES$300,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$140M · 345 repeat orgs$41M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

345 repeat relationships — 133 still active in FY2024, 212 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

345

194

Total granted

$140M

$40M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+34%

Still filing today

75%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

FU
FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY SWITZERLAND INC
5× · 2019–2023 · $14M · revenue +29%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +67%
GW
GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
6× · 2019–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +204% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

KF
KHR FAMILY FUND
one grant, 2023 · $14M
SC
SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
one grant, 2019 · $4.0M
GS
GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +137% · 57% of their budget

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.

The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land & open spaces for present & future generations.

Environment

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory uses science to conserve birds and habitats. Our avian monitoring and habitat restoration activities provide critical data that we use to educate land managers and the public, and contribute to…

Environment

Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy provided expertise, advocacy and resources to envision, enhance and sustain Balboa Park (the "Park") for all visitors in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the…

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Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Rsabg aims to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora.

Environment

Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife,inspire caring for nature,and advance conservation action.

Animals

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The museum inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.

Arts & Culture

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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California State Parks Foundation

To improve and maintain california's state parks.

Recreation & Sports

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Tennis Hall of Fame. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 12% 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%0/411

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,154

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.

05the grantee network

404 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

159

Early backer (in before they grew)

398/404

Grantees still filing

326/404

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$81,186,870Education$37,940,000Philanthropy$17,769,705Arts & Culture$14,596,500Environment$12,530,000Health$8,865,000Recreation & Sports$8,220,000

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.

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.

Khr McNeely Family FoundationCA97.5× affinity45 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 · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Www Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust

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 organisation MANITOU FUND 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237401534 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Manitou Fund?

Find your warmest path to Manitou Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MANITOU FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

404 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Manitou Fund?

More from the funding graph

MANITOU FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

404 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Manitou Fund?

More from the funding graph