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Mannion Family 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.

$100k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182023.

Arts & Culture$4.5MEducation$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$300kYouth Development$80kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $150k → 8%ANDOVER (PHILLIPS ACADEMY): $2.0M → 10%STRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS: $334k → 16%REGIS: $3.0M → 17%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $150k → 8%BOSTON FOUNDATION: $500k → 16%UP EDUCATION NETWORK: $100k → 16%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $500k → 16%UP EDUCATION NETWORK: $100k → 16%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $4.0M → 16%CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $40k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $40k → 16%FUTURE CHEFS: $300k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$580k · 3 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +143% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$580k
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+143%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’23
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BH
    BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $300k · revenue +143%
  • UE
    UP EDUCATION NETWORK
    2× · 2018–2020 · $200k · revenue -68%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    2× · 2018–2020 · $80k

Funded once

  • MO
    MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON
    one grant, 2020 · $4.0M
  • THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4.0M · revenue +66%
  • R
    REGIS
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Northeastern University
Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Edvestors Inc

Edvestors was founded in 2002 as a platform to connect boston philanthropists with the city's public schools by identifying, shaping, and matching donors with promising school improvement efforts. (see schedule o)

Education
9
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
10
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strategic Grant Partners Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON — $4,000,000 · OtherMUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETONREGIS — $3,000,000 · OtherREGISANDOVER (PHILLIPS ACADEMY) — $2,000,000 · OtherANDOVER (PHILLIPS ACADEMY)STRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC — $334,259 · Other+1 more — $80,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $4,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORA…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY …THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $300,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SEC…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $500,000 · EducationBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $300,000 · EducationUP EDUCATION NETWORK — $200,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationBoston Foundation Inc — $500,000 · Philanthropy
Other$9,414,259Arts & Culture$4,000,000Community Improvement$1,300,000Education$1,100,000Philanthropy$500,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC — $334,259 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUP EDUCATION NETWORK — $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Mannion 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Up Education Network31% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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