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Manna Foundation at a glance

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Manna 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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$153kReligion$91kHuman Services$58kHealth$44kFood & Nutrition$12kArts & Culture$11kEducation$4kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALT LAKE CITY MISSION$10,000
SALT LAKE CITY MISSION$10,000
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$8,500
FAMILY PROMISE$8,180
FAMILY PROMISE - SALT LAKE$8,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA$8,000
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$8,000
FAMILY PROMISE$7,000
SALT CITY UNDERGROUND CHURCH$6,142
CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER$6,000
CITY RESCUE MISSION$5,200
LIFE NET$5,125
GODS GARAGE$5,000
MONTANA FOOD BANK$5,000
HOLDING OUT HELP$3,500
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 (FY19–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JESUS HOUSE: $10k → 16%JESUS HOUSE: $10k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $13k → 16%HOLDING OUT HELP: $4k → 8%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 16%CITY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 16%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $15k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $13k → 8%RESCURE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $10k → 8%FILL THE POT MINISTRY: $5k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $2k → 8%FILL THE POT MINISTRY: $2k → 8%FILL THE POT MINISTRY: $500 → 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

MT
IL
PA
RI
UT
CO
VA
NM
OK
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$321k · 12 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$321k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+5%

Still filing today

58%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterReligionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +84%
  • RM
    RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $45k · revenue +9%
  • WP
    WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • EF
    EVES FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • BH
    BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
2
Loaves & Fishes the Church Without Walls

Community outreach and church services

Religion
3
Feed My Sheep Homeless Outreach

To provide food for the homeless

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4
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
5
Faith House Ministries

Community outreach

Religion
6
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
7
House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc

Our mission is to love, house, and equip men, women and children. coming from chronic unemployment, recovery, or an endless cycle of homelessness, our residents experience a clean, safe home where transforming their life can begin.…

Housing & Shelter
8
Under the Bridge Ministries Inc

We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…

Human Services
9
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

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10
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Urban Bicycle Food Ministry
Human Services
12
Faithful Servants Ministry

Housing the homeless

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spy Hop Productions. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALT LAKE CITY MISSION: $53,000 · OtherSALT LAKE CITY MISSIONPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $37,500 · OtherPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERWASHINGTON HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH: $16,746 · OtherWASHINGTON HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCHGODS GARAGE: $11,000 · OtherGODS GARAGEFAMILY PROMISE OF TULSA: $8,000 · OtherSALT CITY UNDERGROUND CHURCH: $6,142 · OtherCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER: $6,000 · OtherOUR SAVIOURS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6,000 · Other+13 more: $28,619 · Other+13 moreCITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $51,200 · Human ServicesCITY RESCUE MISSION INCRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $45,210 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INCJesus House Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesJesus House IncFILL THE POT MINISTRY: $7,000 · Human ServicesFILL THE POT MINISTRY+1 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesFamily Promise - Salt Lake: $58,050 · Housing & ShelterFamily Promise - …WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionDARBY BREAD BOX: $1,500 · Food & NutritionToward Jerusalem Council II: $3,871 · ReligionSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $1,005 · Youth DevelopmentDARBY FIRE DEPT: $800 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$173,007Human Services$126,910Housing & Shelter$58,050Arts & Culture$11,000Food & Nutrition$6,500Religion$3,871Youth Development$1,005Public Safety & Disaster$800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Promise - Salt Lake: $58,050 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $51,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $45,210 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJesus House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFILL THE POT MINISTRY: $7,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER: $4,144 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetToward Jerusalem Council II: $3,871 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHolding Out HELP: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDARBY BREAD BOX: $1,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARBY FIRE DEPT: $800 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Family Promise - Salt Lake ↗
  • Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds Jesus House Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds FILL THE POT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Toward Jerusalem Council II ↗
  • Who funds Holding Out HELP ↗
  • Who funds DARBY BREAD BOX ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds DARBY FIRE DEPT ↗

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.

Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Manna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Manna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 33 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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