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The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,965
Organizations funded a year
5 to 34
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$750k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $645 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentMembership BenefitEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving12$52k58%
FY20235$41k20%
FY20229$59k22%
FY202125$59k36%
FY202015$41k60%
FY201934$64kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$91kEducation$44kInternational$38kReligion$30kPhilanthropy$29kArts & Culture$20kHealth$18kAnimals$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
RI
CA
AZ
NM
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $76,353 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTreepeople Inc: $49,585 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSave Our Canyon: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetEarth League International: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $8,855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBarak Ballet Corporation: $8,490 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetNmdp Foundation: $6,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Law Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChp 11-99 Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Lion Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPetersen Automotive Museum Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkirball Cultural Center: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillside Charitable Organization Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHarmony Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Dybbuk: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Marino Motor Classic: $645 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Contemporary Jewish Museum: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenlo College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico Wildlife Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $494 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the Bay: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Advocates Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marine Mammal Center: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood & Water Action Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Bird Rescue: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenpeace Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $57 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 36.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation

How much does The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation give?
The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $52,080 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Education (14%), International (12%).
Who are The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($76k), Treepeople Inc ($50k), Save Our Canyon ($25k).
Does The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann 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 Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation based?
The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann 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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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