· Private foundation
Mann Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $457k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| MARS HILL COLLEGE NEW CAMPUS CENTER | $50,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE ASSOC | $30,000 |
| DOORS TO FREEDOM | $30,000 |
| SOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE | $30,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSO | $27,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| THE NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY GREATER TRIANGLE RAPID | $20,000 |
| SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| NOTE IN THE POCKET | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +57% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
Samford University5× · 2017–2021 · $881k · revenue +60%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2018–2024 · $162k · revenue +163%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $110k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- HLHENRY LOUIS AARON FOUNDone grant, 2022 · $30k
- 7F7G Foundationone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +8%
- SLSOUTH LIGHT OLYMPICS NCone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 34 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 107 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 Samford University ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DOORS TO FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY JAM ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds NOTE IN THE POCKET INC ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds 7G Foundation ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · John Rex Endowment · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · William C Ethridge Foundation Inc
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 Mann 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.