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Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation at a glance

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Richard and Jane Manoogian 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.2MHealth$2.0MArts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$712kEducation$540kHuman Services$321kAnimals$226kPublic Benefit$218kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $383k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION$133,000
THE WHITE BARN PROJECT$100,000
MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION$50,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$48,735
ANTON ART CENTER$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY SCHOOL OF LAW$25,000
AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN$25,000
MASAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NEURONETWORK FOR EMERGING THERAPIES$25,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE$23,500
MICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARMENIAN AGE INC$20,650
JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION$20,000
CITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $25k → 8%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $133k → 21%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $1k → 21%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 45 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
44

Total granted

$9.9M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+61%

Still filing today

76%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • UR
    URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +188%
  • WB
    WHITE BARN PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $760k · revenue +130% · 100% of their budget
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $663k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • UR
    Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation c/o Schaap Center
    one grant, 2021 · $515k
  • TH
    THE HENRY FORD
    one grant, 2024 · $125k
  • M
    MOCAD
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
2
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
4
Michigan Maritime Museum Inc

The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Detroit Regional Chamber

The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.

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6
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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7
Marquette County Historical Society

Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…

Arts & Culture
8
Michigan Farm Bureau

Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.

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9
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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10
Michigan Water Environment Association

Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…

Environment
11
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
12
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; the most unlike its peers is White Barn Project. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 103 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $5,020,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION+6 more: $201,500 · PhilanthropyUrban Renewal Initiative Foundation c/o Schaap Center: $515,000 · OtherUrban Renewal Initiative …Citizens Research Council: $207,900 · OtherCitizens Research CouncilMICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARMENIAN AGED: $187,925 · OtherMICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARM…ANTON ART CENTER: $145,000 · OtherANTON ART CENTERTHE HENRY FORD: $125,000 · OtherMOCAD: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PEDIATRIC OP: $100,000 · OtherDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $110,000 · OtherINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 · Other+52 more: $1,022,290 · Other+52 moreWHITE BARN PROJECT: $760,000 · HealthWHITE BARN PROJE…MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $410,000 · HealthMACKINAC STRAITS…INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOS…AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $150,000 · HealthAUTISM ALLIANCE …MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $114,500 · HealthMACKINAC ISLAND …+3 more: $62,500 · HealthTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $662,840 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT …MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CO…WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB: $108,400 · Arts & CultureWAWASHKAMO G…GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureGROSSE POINT…Historical Society of Michigan: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $131,792 · Arts & Culture+6 moreSONOMA ACADEMY: $225,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $72,000 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $50,000 · EducationGROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $179,100 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $25,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $12,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S MANTLE: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesJunior League of Detroit: $99,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $79,448 · Community ImprovementMACKINAC ASSOCIATES: $62,025 · Community ImprovementGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$5,221,500Other$2,613,115Health$1,697,000Arts & Culture$1,248,032Education$370,000Human Services$280,600Community Improvement$249,473

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $5,020,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetWHITE BARN PROJECT: $760,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $662,840 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $410,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetSONOMA ACADEMY: $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $200,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetMICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARMENIAN AGED: $187,925 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $179,100 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $150,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $114,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB: $108,400 over 4y, 13% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJunior League of Detroit: $99,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC: $95,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $79,448 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $72,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMACKINAC ASSOCIATES: $62,025 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetGROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION: $59,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHistorical Society of Michigan: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $43,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE HOUSING FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $33,372 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL: $27,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetMICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBay Area Recycling for Charities: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $12,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMARY'S MANTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAU BETA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $9,420 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMACKINAC HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF MICHIGAN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHITE BARN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARMENIAN AGED ↗
  • Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Junior League of Detroit ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Historical Society of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationEthel and James Flinn…William & Martha Ford…Hudson-Webber Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…The George G FundEdsel & Eleanor Ford …The Skillman Foundati…The Kresge FoundationFord PhilanthropyLynn & Paul Alandt Fo…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI47.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The George G Fund · Edsel & Eleanor Ford House · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Lynn & Paul Alandt 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 Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 and Jane Manoogian 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.

    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 103 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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