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The Mankoff Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$908kArts & Culture$729kReligion$416kPublic Benefit$195kEducation$124kCivil Rights$61kEnvironment$50kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS$77,884
MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$70,000
JEWISH FEDERATION LOS ANGELES$36,000
CHAI HOMES$36,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$35,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP$18,000
AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY$15,000
VALLEY OUTREACH SYNAGOGUE$11,800
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
THE CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING INC$10,000
NCJW - GREATER DALLAS$10,000
BEIT T'SHUVAH$7,500
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$1,800
BRAWERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$1,800
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 (FY18–19, $4k) 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%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $50 → 11%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 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

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 32 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
31

Total granted

$1.4M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+24%

Still filing today

72%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TD
    The Dallas Opera
    6× · 2018–2023 · $303k · revenue +10%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +148%
  • TS
    The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas
    4× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TAX CLINIC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -9%

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.

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Dallas Jewish Community Foundation

To be your partner and trusted expert in charitable giving and effective philanthropy by empowering our community's charitable vision, safeguarding our community's resources and building enduring legacies.

Philanthropy
2
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
11
Torah Day School of Dallas

Torah Day School of Dallas is a day school for jewish children grades kindergarden through eigth grade along with pre-school for one through four year old jewish children. The school provides a general studies and secular education meeting…

Education
12
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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyClassical Music EnsemblesJewish Community FederationsPublic University Foundatio…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionAsian American Advocacy & H…Faith-Based Senior LivingYouth Development CentersCancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…Independent K-8 SchoolsUnited Way FederationsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts OrganizationsGovernment Accountability R…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr10%8%35–55yr13%77%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,748

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
34/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $245,000 · OtherDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRATEMPLE EMANU-EL — $182,364 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELVALLEY OUTREACH SYNAGOGUE — $71,800 · OtherVALLEY OUTREACH SYNAGOGUECENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING — $70,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDINGMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ANNENBE — $50,000 · OtherAT & T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $40,000 · OtherCHAI HOMES — $36,000 · Other+35 more — $174,920 · Other+35 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $820,475 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLASJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $36,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $47,000 · PhilanthropyThe Dallas Opera — $302,525 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas OperaDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $70,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust a…+11 more — $43,164 · Arts & Culture+11 moreProgress Texas Institute — $175,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $3,600 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $32,300 · EducationZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC — $11,250 · EducationNew York University School of Law Foundation — $3,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationCITYLAB HS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Education+3 more — $4,300 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $12,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH — $3,800 · HealthHOLD YOUR HORSES — $3,150 · HealthBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthNational Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section — $15,690 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$990,084Philanthropy$903,475Arts & Culture$415,689Civil Rights$178,600Education$54,850Health$21,450Community Improvement$20,690

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $820,475 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetThe Dallas Opera — $302,525 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetProgress Texas Institute — $175,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $32,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas — $21,745 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section — $15,690 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC — $11,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRE US — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS OF REFORM JUDAISM INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLD YOUR HORSES — $3,150 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH TO THE POLLS — $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNew York University School of Law Foundation — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTEROOTS INITIATIVE — $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOTS — $1,800 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Jewish Historical Society — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJQ INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS — $100 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.

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.

Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…The Jeff & Bonnie Whi…Dallas Jewish Communi…The Dallas FoundationThe Mitchell L and Mi…Edward & Wilhelmina A…The Howard Hallam Fam…Navias Family Foundat…The Hersh FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …The Addy Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX21.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett Charitable Trust · Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation · The Howard Hallam Family Foundation · Navias Family Foundation · The Hersh Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy 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 Mankoff Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to The Mankoff Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Mankoff Family 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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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