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The Mano 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $447k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN | $60,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF TULSA | $35,000 |
| CHANGING LANES MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CHURCH ON THE MOVE | $25,000 |
| LISA BEIN MINISTRIES | $24,250 |
| BETHANY HOUSE OF LAREDO INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FOSTER VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| BLUE DOG RESCUE | $20,000 |
| WILD HEART RANCH WILDLIFE RESCUE | $20,000 |
| RUTHE B COWL REHABILITATION CENTER | $20,000 |
| DIVINE CANINES | $15,000 |
| PAUSE4PAWS INC | $15,000 |
| THE STONEBROOK PROJECT INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% 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.
32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- CLChanging Lanes Ministries Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +32%
HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +0%- TCTULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- M4MISSION 4031one grant, 2024 · $15k
- LOLIGHT OF HOPE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -82%
- FOFRIENDS OF PEASEone grant, 2024 · $13k
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.
Luvin Paws Rescue Inc is a foster based rescue saving dogs from high kill shelters in Oklahoma. Luvin Paws Rescue Inc is an all volunteer organization committed to save animals from euthanasia and find future homes for all the homeless. We…
Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…
Villalobos Rescue Center partners newly released inmates and as parolees they work with dogs within our animal shelter to help prepare them for adoption. As this process takes place it is the hope that these parolees learn compassion,…
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
Rescue abused & abandoned dogs, urgent at risk of euthanasia dogs, medical needs & hospice dogs to provide veterinary care, rehabilitation, and find homes for dogs that become adoptable. Sanctuary til end of life is provided for those not…
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that are in overpopulated animal control…
Pug Rescue Owasso mission is to rescue abused, abandoned, homeless, unwanted , sick and injured pugs. we rehabilitate them medically and emotionally and place them into homes
Dogs As Family, Inc. is an all volunteer organization located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Our mission - to rescue, provide sanctuary, rehabilitate, and find loving, forever homes for dogs that have been neglected, are stray, abused or just…
To assist in the ongoing battle of pet overpopulation in Oklahoma by offering a no kill shelter environment, responsible adoption, medical aid, and community outreach. We also intend to provide sanctuary to companion animals who's people…
We work with the local animal control officer so that dogs are not euthanized. We provide proper vet care and spay neuter and adopt them to qualified homes. We also help low-income members of our community by giving them dog food and…
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals in need. Our focus is on rescuing and rehabilitating animals. We provide the full curriculum of care for each dog rescued, This includes: shelter, food, spaying & neutering,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web. 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 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Changing Lanes Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds 4ATX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG ↗
- Who funds TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR ↗
- Who funds Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation ↗
- Who funds Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds PAUSE4PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds LISA BAIN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILOS HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds DIVINE CANINES ↗
- Who funds Laredo College Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds STONEBROOK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Doing What I Can Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIONSTEPS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Natural Freedom Farm Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COLINS HOPE ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BeHeard Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds Lizzys Hospice House ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web ↗
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: South Texas Outreach Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · North Texas Charitable Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Laredo Inc · Womens City Club of Laredo · The Prairie 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 Mano 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.
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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