How much did THE MANO FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Health$170kAnimals$125kHuman Services$78kRecreation & Sports$65kHousing & Shelter$53kEducation$35kReligion$28kSocial Science$12kYouth Development$10kOther$326k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $22k
$10k–50k33 grants · $575k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN$50,000
TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR$41,000
4ATX FOUNDATION$40,000
PAUSE4PAWS INC$30,000
CHANGING LANES MINISTRIES$30,000
RUTHE B COWL REHABILITATION CENTER$25,000
WILD HEART RANCH WILDLIFE RESCUE$25,000
LISA BEIN MINISTRIES$21,500
HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES$20,000
BETHANY HOUSE OF LAREDO INC$20,000
THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$20,000
IRON GATE INC$20,000
CASA DE MISERCORDIA$20,000
TULSA GIRLS' HOME$20,000
BLUE DOG RESCUE$18,250

02The need

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 (FY23–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$682k · 20 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$682k

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%

+1406%

Still filing today

75%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

4F
4ATX FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +23%
TC
TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR
2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +282%
CL
CHANGING LANES MINISTRIES
2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +144%

Funded once

LO
LIGHT OF HOPE INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +1406%

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.

Luvin Pawz Rescue Incorporated

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…

Animals

Life 4 Paws

We are an organization that dedicates our work to the healing of those incarcerated and recently released from prison and forming a relationship with the dogs that we rescue from neglectful and abusive situations. Working together they…

Animals

Animal Rescue Foundation Inc

Animal Rescue Foundation Inc (ARF) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the Tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. We do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…

Animals

Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals

Lake Charles Pit Bull Rescue

Pit Bull Rescue Rehab & Re-Homing

Animals

Second Chance Dog Rescue

Our mission at Second Chance Dog Rescue is to care for companion animals in need byoffering safe refuge, providing medical care (including sterilization) and facilitating adoptions.

Animals

Love and Puppy Paws Dog Rescue

Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) is a 100% foster-based rescue that 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…

Animals

Paws of Austin

PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…

Animals

Oklahoma Paws

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…

Animals

Laurels House

Laurel's House provides spay neuter and urgent care veterinary services for pets at no cost to their owners. Laurel's House also has equine wildlife and educational programs.

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Llano Animal Rescue

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…

Animals

Oklahome Animal Rescue Inc

Non-Profit Animal Rescue Organization

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laredo Animal Protective Society and the most unlike its peers is His House Outreach Ministries 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 18 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

12%

2,100/18,110

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.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

19/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$375,750Health$169,500Animals$124,750Human Services$77,500Recreation & Sports$65,000Housing & Shelter$52,500Education$35,000

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.

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.

South Texas Outreach FoundationTX37.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Texas Outreach Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Womens City Club of Laredo · Flint Family Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 organisation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLUE DOG RESCUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 742988860 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BLUE DOG RESCUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 35% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Mano Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mano Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MANO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mano Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE MANO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mano Foundation?

More from the funding graph