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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.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MReligion$398kArts & Culture$337kHuman Services$234kEnvironment$229kInternational$226kHealth$126kPublic Benefit$123kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $457k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARS HILL COLLEGE NEW CAMPUS CENTER$50,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$50,000
DOORS TO FREEDOM$30,000
NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE ASSOC$30,000
SOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE$30,000
NATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSO$27,000
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC$20,000
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$20,000
THE NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$20,000
UNITED WAY GREATER TRIANGLE RAPID$20,000
SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA$15,000
NOTE IN THE POCKET$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $15k → 12%SHE'S THE FIRST: $5k → 17%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 25%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFA: $5k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $10k → 12%SHE'S THE FIRST: $5k → 17%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 25%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFA: $5k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $10k → 12%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 25%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 25%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 25%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 25%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $3k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $10k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $10k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $4k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $15k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $4k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $10k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $4k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $3k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $3k → 8%READ AND FEED: $10k → 8%READ AND FEED: $10k → 8%READ AND FEED: $4k → 8%READ AND FEED: $3k → 8%READ AND FEED: $3k → 8%READ AND FEED: $3k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $11k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $8k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NJ
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CA
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CO
NE
VA
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 63 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
31

Total granted

$3.3M
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+44%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Samford University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $881k · revenue +60%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $162k · revenue +163%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $110k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • 7F
    7G Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +8%
  • HL
    HENRY LOUIS AARON FOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SL
    SOUTH LIGHT OLYMPICS NC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Furman University

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.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Npr Foundation

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…

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4
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
5
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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…

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7
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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9
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

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.

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10
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
11
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 107 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
56/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF AL ALUMNI ASSOC: $273,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AL ALUMNI ASSOCFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $115,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHMARS HILL COLLEGE NEW CAMPUS CENTER: $100,000 · OtherMARS HILL COLLEGE NEW CAMPUS CENTERDEERMEADOWS BAPTIST CHURCH: $85,000 · OtherPALMS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherGREENWICH BAPTIST CHURCH: $71,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $65,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC: $64,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $74,000 · OtherAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $61,500 · Other+69 more: $778,250 · Other+69 moreSamford University: $881,000 · EducationSamford University+6 more: $74,100 · Education+6 moreTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $56,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $36,000 · Human ServicesConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $35,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRY: $33,500 · Human ServicesNOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesREAD AND FEED: $32,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $17,500 · Human ServicesSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $84,000 · Arts & CultureALLEGHANY JAM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION: $27,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $162,000 · ReligionDOORS TO FREEDOM: $56,000 · Crime & LegalNative American Heritage Association: $30,000 · Crime & LegalSAFECHILD: $23,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $110,050 · Public Benefit
Other$1,826,750Education$955,100Human Services$262,500Arts & Culture$204,000Religion$162,000Crime & Legal$114,000Public Benefit$110,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamford University: $881,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $162,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $110,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $74,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $61,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $56,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDOORS TO FREEDOM: $56,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetALLEGHANY JAM: $50,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $49,000 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $33,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREAD AND FEED: $32,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $32,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget7G Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION: $27,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetNEW LEAF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $23,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAFECHILD: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWATERORG: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE AT THE TABLE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES TOGETHER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DOORS TO FREEDOM ↗
  • 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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
  • 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 Native American Heritage Association ↗
  • Who funds 7G Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEAF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗

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.

North Carolina Commun…Triangle Community Fo…Aj Fletcher FoundationDuke Energy FoundationW Trent Ragland Jr Fo…John William Pope Fou…United Way of the Gre…Credit Suisse America…John Rex EndowmentCarolina Hurricanes F…The Cannon Foundation…William C Ethridge Fo…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC40× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 107 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home