· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT | $100,000 |
| ART-IN-NATURE ARBORETUM TRUST | $100,000 |
| FOREFRONT | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $75,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 6% of The Manaaki Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 82 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.
- 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 ↗
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- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
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- Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Manaaki Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Manaaki Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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