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Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary$12,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Busch Wildlife Sanctuary: $5k → 11%Cincinnati Museum Center: $5k → 16%Les Turner ALS Foundation: $8k → 14%Operation Smile: $5k → 19%Busch Wildlife Sanctuary: $5k → 11%Cincinnati Museum Center: $4k → 16%Les Turner ALS Foundation: $5k → 14%Operation Smile: $5k → 19%Busch Wildlife Sanctuary: $5k → 11%Cincinnati Museum Center: $4k → 16%Les Turner ALS Foundation: $5k → 14%Operation Smile: $5k → 19%Busch Wildlife Sanctuary: $3k → 11%Cincinnati Museum Center: $3k → 16%Les Turner ALS Foundation: $3k → 14%Operation Smile: $4k → 19%Busch Wildlife Sanctuary: $3k → 11%Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: $8k → 16%Les Turner ALS Foundation: $3k → 14%Operation Smile: $3k → 19%Busch Wildlife Sanctuary: $13k → 11%Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: $5k → 16%Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: $5k → 16%Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: $5k → 16%Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden: $3k → 16%SPCA Cincinnati: $1k → 16%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundati: $4k → 16%Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundati: $3k → 16%The Christ Hospital: $5k → 16%The Christ Hospital: $4k → 16%The Christ Hospital: $4k → 16%Cincinnati Art Museum: $5k → 16%Cincinnati Art Museum: $4k → 16%Cincinnati Art Museum: $4k → 16%Cincinnati Art Museum: $3k → 16%Cincinnati Art Museum: $2k → 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$188k · 10 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$188k
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-11%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
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

  • THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +103%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Manes Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • TH
    THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -11%
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
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
2
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio

The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
5
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
6
Bethesda Hospital Inc

To improve the health status of the people we serve. this is accomplished by providing a full range of health related services including prevention, wellness and education.

Health
7
Chmc Community Health Services Network

Chmc community health services network ("chsn") is organized and operated exclusively to support cincinnati children's hospital medical center ("cchmc") in cchmc's efforts to provide medical services to all of the children in the community.

Health
8
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
9
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
10
Cincinnati Observatory Center

The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.

Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals
12
Mccullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Incorporated

Acute care hospital facility delivering quality services to our patients and the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is Operation Smile 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Manes Foundation: $300,000 · OtherThe Manes FoundationHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $24,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATEDLes Turner ALS Foundation: $22,000 · OtherLes Turner ALS Foundation+2 more: $17,000 · OtherTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $32,000 · AnimalsTHE BUSCH WIL…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $25,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SO…+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $15,500 · Arts & CultureOPERATION SMILE INC: $21,000 · InternationalThe Christ Hospital: $13,000 · Health
Other$363,500Animals$58,000Arts & Culture$33,000International$21,000Health$13,000

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 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
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.

  • Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Christ Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Richard & Dorothy Pandorf Foundation co Dennis Manes 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.

    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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