· Private foundation
Mann-Paller Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $970k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| ARENA STAGE | $750,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TULSA | $352,000 |
| THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $250,000 |
| URBAN NATION | $120,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE ABILITY CHALLENGE | $100,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $100,000 |
| WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $50,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2019–2021 · $9.1M · revenue +26%
- WDWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +31%
- TSTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE5× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MCMD CLEAN ENERGY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $150k
- DHDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +863%
- AGACTIVATE GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +135%
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.
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Dominion Speedskating. 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 52 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CYBER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY CHALLENGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX COUNTY STARS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds US SPEEDSKATING ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINION SPEEDSKATING ↗
- Who funds The Washington Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds C&O CANAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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-Paller 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% 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.