· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k84 grants · $6.8M
- $250k+25 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $1,750,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INC | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $915,000 |
| CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $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 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY | $300,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC | $300,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES | $300,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
334 repeat relationships: 132 still active in FY2024, 202 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFRANKLIN SWITZERLAND INC5× · 2019–2023 · $14M · revenue +30%
- GWGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND6× · 2019–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +53% · 34% of their budget
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- KMKHR MCNEELY FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $14M
- GSGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -89% · 57% of their budget
- SBSANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +64%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
How this is measured
446 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 446 of the 536 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds KHR MCNEELY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN SWITZERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SAVE VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAI - THE ITALIAN ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Deetjens Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Education Foundation ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Manitou Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Manitou Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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