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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $954k · revenue +3%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois8× · 2018–2025 · $935k · revenue +50%
- TCThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress8× · 2018–2025 · $740k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TFTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +102%
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +15%
- CHCHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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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.
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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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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