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The Mano Foundation at a glance

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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.

$529k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Animals$280kHealth$230kHuman Services$206kEmployment$145kFood & Nutrition$121kHousing & Shelter$93kYouth Development$77kRecreation & Sports$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $447k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN$60,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF TULSA$35,000
CHANGING LANES MINISTRIES$35,000
CHURCH ON THE MOVE$25,000
HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES$25,000
LISA BEIN MINISTRIES$24,250
FOSTER VILLAGE$20,000
BLUE DOG RESCUE$20,000
RUTHE B COWL REHABILITATION CENTER$20,000
BETHANY HOUSE OF LAREDO INC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
WILD HEART RANCH WILDLIFE RESCUE$20,000
TULSA GIRLS' HOME$15,000
DIVINE CANINES$15,000
LAREDO COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOSTER VILLAGE: $20k → 10%TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $41k → 14%FOSTER VILLAGE: $15k → 10%TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $12k → 14%TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $7k → 14%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $60k → 6%FOSTER VILLAGE: $10k → 10%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF TULSA: $35k → 15%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $50k → 6%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $35k → 6%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF TULSA: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 32 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +0% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
0%

Still filing today

84%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CL
    Changing Lanes Ministries Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +53%
  • HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +0%
  • TC
    TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • M4
    MISSION 4031
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • LO
    LIGHT OF HOPE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -82%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PEASE
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Dollys Legacy Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
3
Villalobos Rescue Center Pets in

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,…

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4
Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
5
Barking Mad Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
6
West Houston Animal Rescue

Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.

Animals
7
Love and Puppy Paws Dog Rescue

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…

Animals
8
Pug Rescue Owasso

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

Animals
9
Dogs As Family Inc

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…

Animals
10
Oklahoma Paws Memphis Street Animal Rescue

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
11
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
12
Blue Waters Dog Rescue

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,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Positive Tomorrows Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
15/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOW…TULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $59,500 · Human ServicesTULSA CORNERSTONE ASSI…FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE INCPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesPHILOS HOSPITALITY INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTULSA GIRLS' HOME: $45,000 · OtherTULSA GIRLS' HOMEBethany House of Laredo Inc: $40,000 · OtherBethany House of Laredo IncTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $30,000 · OtherTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSECHURCH ON THE MOVE: $25,000 · OtherCHURCH ON THE MOVEROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FO: $20,000 · OtherPOP-UP BIRTHDAY: $20,000 · OtherMISSION 4031: $15,000 · OtherLaredo College Education Foundation: $30,000 · OtherLaredo College Education Foundati…COLINS HOPE: $20,000 · OtherDoing What I Can Inc: $24,250 · OtherDoing What I Can IncACTIONSTEPS COUNSELING INC: $23,500 · OtherACTIONSTEPS COUNSELING INCNatural Freedom Farm Incorporated: $22,500 · OtherNatural Freedom Farm Incorporated+6 more: $52,000 · Other+6 moreChanging Lanes Ministries Inc: $80,000 · HealthChanging Lanes Minist…Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center: $57,000 · HealthRuthe B Cowl Rehabili…PAUSE4PAWS INC: $55,000 · HealthPAUSE4PAWS INCSTONEBROOK PROJECT INC: $30,000 · HealthSTONEBROOK PROJECT IN…LIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · HealthLIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDA…LIGHT OF HOPE INC: $15,000 · HealthLIGHT OF HOPE INCChildrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web: $10,000 · HealthWild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation: $57,500 · AnimalsWild Heart Ranch …BLUE DOG RESCUE INC: $43,250 · AnimalsBLUE DOG RESCUE I…DIVINE CANINES: $39,000 · AnimalsDIVINE CANINESOKLAHOMA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS INC: $30,000 · AnimalsOKLAHOMA ALLIANCE…BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC: $20,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS FOR …LAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsLAREDO ANIMAL PRO…Lizzys Hospice House: $15,000 · AnimalsLizzys Hospice Ho…HIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterBeHeard Movement Inc: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterLISA BAIN MINISTRIES INC: $45,750 · ReligionIRON GATE INC: $27,500 · Religion4ATX FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Colorado Soccer Foundation: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$289,500Other$417,250Health$274,500Animals$224,750Housing & Shelter$77,500Religion$73,250Recreation & Sports$72,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $145,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetChanging Lanes Ministries Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 13% of budget4ATX FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR: $59,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetWild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation: $57,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetRuthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center: $57,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPAUSE4PAWS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetLISA BAIN MINISTRIES INC: $45,750 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE DOG RESCUE INC: $43,250 over 3y, 37% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPHILOS HOSPITALITY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDIVINE CANINES: $39,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSTONEBROOK PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOKLAHOMA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLaredo College Education Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLIMBS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetIRON GATE INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDoing What I Can Inc: $24,250 over 2y, 15% of budgetACTIONSTEPS COUNSELING INC: $23,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNatural Freedom Farm Incorporated: $22,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetBEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOLINS HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBeHeard Movement Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLIGHT OF HOPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLizzys Hospice House: $15,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Colorado Soccer Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

South Texas Outreach …The Anne and Henry Za…The Guadalupe and Lil…The Gelvin FoundationTulsa Community Found…The Hardesty Family F…Oneok Foundation IncNorth Texas Charitabl…Austin Community Foun…United Way of Laredo …Womens City Club of L…The Prairie Foundation
South Texas Outreach FoundationTX39× affinity16 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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mano Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mano Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    13get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Mano Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Mano 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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