· Private foundation
Manning Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $657k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+8 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $4,800,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,060,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,000,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $304,000 |
| AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND | $300,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE BIOHUB | $255,000 |
| THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $200,000 |
| READY KIDS | $180,000 |
| CITY OF PROMISE | $154,470 |
| ALBEMARLE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION | $102,200 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $100,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT | $87,500 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $75,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 20 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +4%- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +27%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6.9M
- TRTHE RECTORS & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)one grant, 2017 · $526k
- JFJDFT1D FUND LLCone grant, 2021 · $500k
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 foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.
The mission of uvachf is to raise community support and funding through charitable giving for much needed programs, improved facilities, and state of the art technology for uva community health, an integral part of uva health. uva…
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Uva School of Education and Human Development Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Michael Wassmer Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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.
102 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. 102 of the 158 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 FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBEMARLE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE BIOHUB ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds MONTANOVA STABLES FOUNDATION ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · Sentara Health · The Rimora Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Better Living 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 Manning 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.
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center 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.
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