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Mgr 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.

$221k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Mgr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$156k27%
FY202320$143k30%
FY202219$175k21%
FY202116$145k13%
FY202019$200k11%
FY201919$275k16%
FY201822$202k27%
FY201718$205kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$550kPhilanthropy$500kHuman Services$287kInternational$131kReligion$103kFood & Nutrition$96kRecreation & Sports$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
CA
NE
MD
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stephen Gaynor School$225,00050%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$192,5008n/a
Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc$170,30082%
The Chapin School Ltd$145,00040%
Hour Children Inc$87,50070%
Gregorian University Foundation Inc$82,5008n/a
City Harvest Inc$60,50080%
Panorama Global$50,00010%
TeamLift Inc$35,00061%
Bread for the World Institute$35,00070%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Mgr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stephen Gaynor School$225,00050%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$192,5008n/a
Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc$170,30082%
The Chapin School Ltd$145,00040%
Hour Children Inc$87,50070%
Gregorian University Foundation Inc$82,5008n/a
City Harvest Inc$60,50080%
Panorama Global$50,00010%
TeamLift Inc$35,00061%
Bread for the World Institute$35,00070%
Catholic Relief Services$35,0007n/a
The Missionary Society of St Columban$35,0007n/a
Dwight School Foundation$30,00031%
Accion International$27,50060%
Valley Interfaith Leadership & Education Council$20,000126%
St Paul the Apostle$20,0004n/a
Georgetown University$20,00040%
Minnesota Museum of American Art$15,00030%
Church of the Blessed Sacrament$12,5002n/a
Asylum Access$7,50020%
Deutsche Bank Microcredit Development Fund Inc$6,00023%
American Friends of Jamaica Inc$5,00011%
New York University$5,00020%
Rural Education & Development Inc$5,00011%
The Doe Fund Inc$5,00010%
Leo Impact Fund Inc$3,200212%
Echange Endeavors$3,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation$2,50010%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Safe Water Network$2,50010%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc$1,50010%
Douglas County Car Care Program$1,50030%
Bank Street College of Education$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mgr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStephen Gaynor School: $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc: $170,300 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHour Children Inc: $87,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $60,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPanorama Global: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeamLift Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDwight School Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAccion International: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetValley Interfaith Leadership & Education Council: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetGeorgetown University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Museum of American Art: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAsylum Access: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDeutsche Bank Microcredit Development Fund Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRural Education & Development Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeo Impact Fund Inc: $3,200 over 2y, 12% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Water Network: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConfluence Philanthropy Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDouglas County Car Care Program: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBank Street College of Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Mgr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mgr 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.

About Mgr Foundation

How much does Mgr Foundation give?
Mgr Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $221,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mgr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Philanthropy (27%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Mgr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stephen Gaynor School ($225k), Jesuit Refugee Service USA ($193k), Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc ($170k).
Does Mgr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mgr 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 Mgr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is Mgr Foundation based?
Mgr Foundation is based in MN.

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 48 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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