· Private foundation
Mann Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MADELYNS FUND | $24,000 |
| RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| DIAPER TRAIN | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| BAND TOGETHER NC | $7,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| WOMEN'S GIVING NETWORK OF WAKE COUNTY | $1,200 |
| CARETHE JOHN 316 CENTER | $300 |
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 (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k 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
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2024 · $793k · revenue +97%
RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +46%- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $62k · revenue +17%
Funded once
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%
TABLE MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER TRIANGLEone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
The foundation of unc charlotte receives contributions to promote and develop the academic and educational purpose of unc charlotte by providing support for operations, educational programs, and scholarships for the university and its…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.
The triangle charter educational association is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the association is comprised of respected leaders within the state of north carolina who are committed…
The organization is a public-private partnership to accelerate and scale commercialized innovation from nc's universities, create jobs, and improve economic opportunities in all 100 counties of north carolina.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jim Parke Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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 THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Madelyns Fund ↗
- Who funds DIAPER TRAIN ↗
- Who funds BAND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds C A R E dba The John 3 16 Center ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE SOUTHEAST RALEIGH CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JIM PARKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HILL DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OVERFLOWING HANDS INC BELARUSSIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Replogle Family Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Raleigh Kiwanis Foundation Inc · Maynard Family Foundation
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 Foundation Inc 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.
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.