Washington · Private foundation
Manzana Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $585k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,323
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Manzana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $585k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $871k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $3.2M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $419k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $6.4M | 83% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.0M | 90% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $52k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage University | $3,210,862 | 4 | 7% |
| Educational Service District 105 | $3,119,545 | 1 | n/a |
| La Casa Hogar | $250,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Teach for America Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington Apple Education Foundation | $123,550 | 5 | 2% |
| Inspire Development Centers | $69,369 | 1 | 0% |
| Technology Access Foundation | $2,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Wellness House | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Yakima Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Manzana Foundation
- How much does Manzana Foundation give?
- Manzana Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $585,017 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Manzana Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Philanthropy (12%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Manzana Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Heritage University ($3.2M), Educational Service District 105 ($3.1M), La Casa Hogar ($250k).
- Does Manzana Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Manzana Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Manzana Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yakima Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Manzana Foundation based?
- Manzana Foundation is based in WA.
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