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Manning Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$4.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$27MPhilanthropy$14MEducation$9.4MYouth Development$1.9MHuman Services$1.9MArts & Culture$1.0MPublic Benefit$1.0MHousing & Shelter$996kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $657k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $11M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$302M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW STORY: $555 → 13%RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $30k → 20%THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $20k → 20%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $2k → 8%RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $2k → 20%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY: $300 → 8%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY: $250 → 8%READY KIDS: $427k → 8%READY KIDS: $185k → 8%READY KIDS: $180k → 8%READY KIDS: $174k → 8%READY KIDS: $156k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $35k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $20k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $20k → 8%READY KIDS: $15k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $15k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $10k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $10k → 8%STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $6k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $76k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $56k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $53k → 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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48M · 72 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
61

Total granted

$48M
$8.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+31%

Still filing today

58%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +4%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +27%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6.9M
  • TR
    THE RECTORS & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)
    one grant, 2017 · $526k
  • JF
    JDFT1D FUND LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
4
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
5
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
6
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
7
Vpm Media Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Virginia Mentoring Partnership

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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.

Education
10
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation

Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.

Education
11
Uva Community Health Foundation

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…

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12
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Uva School of Education and Human Development Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 158 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
69/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Paul B Manning Charitable Gift Fund: $8,925,000 · OtherPaul B Manning Charitable Gift FundIndividual grant recipient: $6,900,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $6,676,612 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $4,495,096 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF VIRIGINIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,100,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRIGINIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF VIRIGINIA: $1,700,000 · Other+90 more: $7,152,181 · Other+90 moreTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,081,335 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING …BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,736,600 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+11 more: $1,322,670 · Health+11 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,800,000 · Community ImprovementCHARLOTTESVILLE BIOHUB: $255,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $8,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,060,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,812,600 · Education+10 more: $121,500 · EducationREADYKIDS INC: $1,137,255 · Human ServicesCITY OF PROMISE INC: $338,470 · Human ServicesSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $62,000 · Human Services+6 more: $78,605 · Human ServicesTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $920,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $51,400 · Philanthropy+7 more: $120,125 · PhilanthropyTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $262,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $191,666 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $166,292 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSt John Family Life & Fitness Center Inc: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $110,289 · Arts & Culture
Other$37,949,139Health$14,140,605Community Improvement$5,063,000Education$4,994,100Human Services$1,686,330Philanthropy$1,341,525Arts & Culture$885,247

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 budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,081,335 over 4y, 17% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,800,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,060,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,736,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,812,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $1,137,255 over 6y, 15% of budgetTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $920,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $444,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $355,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALBEMARLE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION: $350,200 over 4y, 46% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC: $338,470 over 4y, 15% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $329,976 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $275,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $262,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE BIOHUB: $255,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $220,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $191,666 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $175,218 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $166,292 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $146,701 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetMONTANOVA STABLES FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $90,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $88,750 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE AGENCY: $80,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $80,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSt John Family Life & Fitness Center Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $63,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $62,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: $60,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetPIEDMONT CASA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $51,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50,470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE: $45,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetALL BLESSINGS FLOW INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE: $35,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $32,125 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget100 Black Men of Central Virginia: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrange Free Clinic Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSENIOR CENTER INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% 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 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 ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Caplin FoundationPerry Foundation IncThe Genan FoundationThe J & E Berkley Fou…The Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…United Way of Greater…Sentara HealthThe Rimora FoundationS&P Global Foundation…The Better Living Fou…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA118.8× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
38report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Manning Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Manning Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 158 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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