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The Manaaki 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Arts & Culture$2.4MInternational$1.6MEnvironment$1.5MHealth$1.2MEducation$1.0MPublic Benefit$740kFood & Nutrition$315kHousing & Shelter$270kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$155,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$129,045
MOTHER JONES$125,000
ART-IN-NATURE ARBORETUM TRUST$100,000
WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT$100,000
FOREFRONT$75,000
THE CARTER CENTER INC$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$75,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER$70,000
CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT$60,000
ONE EARTH COLLECTIVE$55,000
ADMINISTRATORS OF TULANE UNIVERSITY$50,000
FOOD & WATER WATCH$45,000
GREEN AMERICA$40,000
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA LTD$40,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $50k → 14%VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $25k → 14%VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $10k → 14%VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $10k → 14%VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $5k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $5k → 14%THE VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $10k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $20k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $15k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
LA
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Manaaki Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Manaaki Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 51 repeat orgs$359k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
24

Total granted

$9.7M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+19%

Still filing today

88%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalEducationAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $954k · revenue +3%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Illinois
    8× · 2018–2025 · $935k · revenue +50%
  • TC
    The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress
    8× · 2018–2025 · $740k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +102%
  • FM
    FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Chicago Sun-Times Media Inc

Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.

6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

10
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
11
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
12
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,493

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
54/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $954,045 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MED…TRACE MEDIA INC — $207,500 · Arts & CultureTRACE MEDIA INCPRO PUBLICA INC — $165,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCGlobal Press Institute — $120,000 · Arts & CultureGlobal Press Insti…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $70,000 · Arts & CultureChicago International Puppet Theater Festival — $61,300 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $201,240 · Arts & Culture+12 moreFOREFRONT — $277,500 · OtherFOREFRONTART-IN-NATURE ARBORETUM TRUST — $200,000 · OtherART-IN-NATURE ARBORETUM TRUSTREFUSHE (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS HESHIMA KENYA) — $170,000 · OtherTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $140,000 · OtherAS YOU SOW — $125,000 · OtherGREEN AMERICA — $300,000 · OtherGREEN AMERICAJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $251,100 · OtherJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIF…FOOD & WATER WATCH — $265,000 · OtherFOOD & WATER WATCHCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $230,000 · OtherCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INCEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $230,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT F…THE VOICES & FACES PROJECT — $110,000 · OtherGROWING HOME INC — $127,519 · Other+29 more — $853,578 · Other+29 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $400,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTR…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $325,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT — $320,000 · EducationWOMENS GLOBAL…LINK Unlimited Scholars — $240,000 · EducationLINK Unlimite…+1 more — $12,984 · EducationPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $935,000 · HealthPlanned Pare…Range Of Motion Project — $146,000 · HealthRange Of Mot…ALLIANCECHICAGO — $75,000 · HealthALLIANCECHIC…+2 more — $30,000 · HealthThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $740,000 · Public BenefitThe Center …CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT — $390,000 · Public BenefitCHICAGO MED…THE CARTER CENTER INC — $600,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $455,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…+2 more — $50,000 · InternationalONE EARTH COLLECTIVE — $405,081 · EnvironmentONE EARTH…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $355,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONME…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $115,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CL…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $40,000 · Environment+3 more — $15,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$1,779,085Other$3,279,697Education$1,297,984Health$1,186,000Public Benefit$1,130,000International$1,105,000Environment$930,081

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $954,045 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $935,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $740,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $600,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $455,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetONE EARTH COLLECTIVE — $405,081 over 8y, 25% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $400,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT — $390,000 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $355,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $325,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT — $320,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetGREEN AMERICA — $300,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $265,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $251,100 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars — $240,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $230,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $230,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTRACE MEDIA INC — $207,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $165,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRange Of Motion Project — $146,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $140,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $127,519 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $125,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Press Institute — $120,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECT — $110,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetMOMENTA — $108,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetFOREFRONT — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCECHICAGO — $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago International Puppet Theater Festival — $61,300 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION AND HOPE INC — $50,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThird Coast International Audio Festival — $48,820 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFull Spectrum Features NFP — $18,420 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMASTE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $12,984 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds ONE EARTH COLLECTIVE
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT
  • Who funds GREEN AMERICA
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
  • Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC
  • Who funds TRACE MEDIA INC
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC
  • Who funds Range Of Motion Project
  • Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC
  • Who funds GROWING HOME INC
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW
  • Who funds Global Press Institute
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE VOICES & FACES PROJECT
  • Who funds MOMENTA
  • Who funds FOREFRONT
  • Who funds ALLIANCECHICAGO
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC
  • Who funds Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
  • Who funds OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC
  • Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL41.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Moller Family Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Manaaki Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Manaaki Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Manaaki 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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