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The Menaged 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.

$153k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Menaged Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
EnvironmentHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$153k8%
FY202425$125k8%
FY202324$130k4%
FY202225$151k40%
FY202115$88k40%
FY202011$90k18%
FY201910$76k50%
FY201811$61k45%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$341kEnvironment$128kFood & Nutrition$109kArts & Culture$101kHuman Services$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPhilanthropy$35kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
CA
MD
DC
LA
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($394k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Menaged Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $60,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $56,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $36,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlonzo King Lines Ballet: $35,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOdc Theater: $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Beach Citizens: $24,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEastern Shore Food Lab Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $6,037 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMultidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Jazz Organization: $5,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $5,001 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Battery Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPreservation Hall Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCongo Initiative USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Security Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNirsa Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Koret Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About The Menaged Foundation

How much does The Menaged Foundation give?
The Menaged Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $153,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Menaged Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Environment (14%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are The Menaged Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ($61k), Sierra Club ($57k), Rainforest Foundation Inc ($40k).
Does The Menaged Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Menaged Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Menaged Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is The Menaged Foundation based?
The Menaged Foundation is based in CA.

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 46 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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