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Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes

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.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$935k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
AnimalsOther
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 arriving1$13k0%
FY20231$5k0%
FY20223$12k0%
FY20217$315k14%
FY20206$24k0%
FY201911$51k18%
FY20189$36k11%
FY20178$34kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$300kHealth$98kAnimals$58kArts & Culture$33k

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
The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc$32,00060%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati$25,00050%
Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated$24,50060%
Operation Smile Inc$21,00050%
Cincinnati Museum Association$17,50050%
Cincinnati Museum Center$15,50040%
The Christ Hospital$13,00030%
The Hamilton County Spca Inc Dba Spca Cincinnati$1,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($339k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $32,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetZoological Society of Cincinnati: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Cincinnati Incorporated: $24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Museum Association: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Museum Center: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christ Hospital: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hamilton County Spca Inc Dba Spca Cincinnati: $1,000 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 8.

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About Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes

How much does Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes give?
Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes reported 1 grants totaling $12,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (61%), Health (20%), Animals (12%).
Who are Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc ($32k), Zoological Society of Cincinnati ($25k), Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated ($25k).
Does Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes 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.
Where is Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes based?
Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes is based in OH.

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 12 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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