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Mannion Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$100,000
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.

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +143% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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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.…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Foundation Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 13 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncAmazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Up Education Network: 31% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 0% 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, 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 13 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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