· Private foundation
The Jds Manna Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY NAZARENE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,360 |
| RANDY WISE CLIO INC | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,655 |
| MDA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF MID MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| HAND OF HOPE - FLM | $1,500 |
| GOFUNDME INC | $510 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MICHIGAN | $38 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Jds Manna Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +117% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RIVER CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $5k
- HOHAND OF HOPE-FLM2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +117%
- FPFamily Promise of Mid Michigan3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- HFHURLEY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +48%
- LGLORI GREENHAW ATTN BRIAN BETZOLDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- GFGOFUNDME FOR PAUL BINGHAMone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
The mission of Montcalm County Habitat for Humanity is to improve lives in our community by building safe and affordable housing in partnership with Gods people.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to provide individuals and their families that are going through the organ transplant process an affordable temporary home away from home in West Michigan to ease the transitions of their…
Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, Inc (HFH) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to expand affordable housing opportunities by partnering with people in our community. Applicants qualify for Habitat's homeownership…
Our mission is to increase awareness of the problems of people who are homeless and the development and carrying out of strategies to create permanent solutions to homelessness in our community.
To provide decent, affordable housing to low income families.
To promote the well-being and economic self sufficiency of individuals living with mental illness by providing job training, placement services, and other resources that enable them to gain employment in remote work settings. Through our…
Fragile X Association of Michigan unites the MI Fragile X community to: Enrich lives through educational & emotional support, promote public and professional awareness, advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for fragile X…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: The Serra Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jds Manna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jds Manna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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