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.

The Menaged Foundation

The Menaged Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

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

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $48k
$10k–50k9 grants · $105k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STANFORD FOUNDATION- DR GOLDBERG'S OPTIC NERVE REGENERATION RESEARCH	$25,000
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET	$10,000
CURE BLINDNESS HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT	$10,000
THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT	$10,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND	$10,000
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION	$10,000
ODC THEATER	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS	$5,000
SF MARIN FOOD BANK	$5,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000
EASTERN SHORE FOOD LAB	$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$869k · 28 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$869k

$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+11%

Still filing today

75%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthInternationalEducationOther

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

GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +86%
RF
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +113%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +26%

Funded once

WC
WINE COUNTRY RELIEF FUND PACIFIC UNION
one grant, 2017 · $10k
PG
PAYPAL GIVING FUND-EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
one grant, 2020 · $10k
TM
That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +55%

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.

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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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech

Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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

33 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. 33 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

22/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$555,937Human Services$91,250Arts & Culture$76,400Environment$71,501Health$54,500International$52,000Civil Rights$30,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home