· Public charity
Manaus
Manaus is a non-profit fund that works in partnership with others using the principle of community organizing and human-centered design to create sustainable solutions to issues that further equity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Two Rivers Community School | $120,000 |
| Roaring Fork CDC | $20,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference | $6,500 |
| TACAW | $6,000 |
| River Bridge Regional Center | $5,500 |
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 (FY21–21, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TRTwo Rivers Community School4× · 2021–2024 · $206k · revenue +66%
- RFRoaring Fork Community Development Corporation2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue -32%
- FRFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE ROARING FORK SCHOOLS2× · 2021–2022 · $116k
Funded once
- MVMountain Voices Projectone grant, 2019 · $329k · revenue -74%
- TSThe Savings Collaborativeone grant, 2021 · $77k · revenue -11%
- EIEnglish in Actiongraduatedone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +349%
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.
Fraser Valley Community Media operates community radio stations KFFR 88.3 FM and KWTR 89.1 FM to unite Grand County, Colorado, by broadcasting local music, news, cultural programming, youth education, and civic information.
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
Our mission is to provide individualized educational options where students and teachers engage in playful, exploratory learning by creating a culture of collaboration in a safe, diverse, multi-age environment. Our students are encouraged…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
The RFSP works to improve safety for wildlife crossing Colorado Highway 82, focusing on reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions. The initiative specifically addresses wildlife like elk, mule deer,and other animals that get caught in traffic…
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
The MVP Education Fund is a broad-based organization along Colorados Western Slope. MVP is comprised of local institutions, including but not limited to, congregations, educational organizations non-profits, and neighborhood organizations…
To help people connect to nature and the land.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
The Pinon Project Family Resource Center strengthens our community by providing comprehensive services for children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roaring Fork Public Radio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 Mountain Voices Project ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers Community School ↗
- Who funds Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Savings Collaborative ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FOR LIFELONG DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds ALPINE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOPRIS SUN INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds RIVER BRIDGE REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Fullerton Family Charitable Fund · The North Star Charitable Foundation · Castaways 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 Manaus 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.
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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Find your warmest path to Manaus 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.