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The Robert Mindy and Merissa Mann Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$750k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY$17,965
TREEPEOPLE$12,500
UCLA HILLEL$7,000
BERKELEY LAW FOUNDATION$5,000
AFINS$5,000
PETERSEN AUTO MUSEUM$1,800
HAMMER MUSEUM$1,250
BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION$1,000
CLAW$262
SKIRBALL MUSEUM$165
LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH$81
CONCERN FOUNDATION$57
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHP 1199 FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $17k → 10%EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 14%HILLSIDE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $1k → 7%CHP 1199 FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV: $25k → 17%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $18k → 17%DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE: $3k → 14%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV: $8k → 17%BERKELEY LAW FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SF BALLET: $6k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 17%SAVE OUR CANYON: $25k → 14%AFINS: $5k → 17%LA MASTER CHORALE: $3k → 14%WAYFINDER: $2k → 14%NARAL: $3k → 14%EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%THE NAZARIAN CENTER: $1k → 14%UCLA HILLEL: $7k → 14%UCLA HILLEL: $5k → 14%UCLA HILLEL: $5k → 14%UCLA HILLEL: $5k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $17k → 14%UCLA HILLEL: $5k → 14%TREEPEOPLE: $13k → 14%UCLA HILLEL: $3k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $10k → 14%HAMMER MUSEUM: $1k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $6k → 14%WILD WINGS: $3k → 14%TREE PEOPLE: $4k → 14%HARMONY PROJECT: $1k → 14%BARAK BALLET: $6k → 14%BARAK BALLET: $1k → 14%BARAK BALLET: $875 → 14%CEDARS SINAI: $4k → 14%CEDARS SINAI: $3k → 14%CEDARS SINAI: $2k → 14%PETERSEN AUTO MUSEUM: $2k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%PETERSON AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $2k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
RI
CA
AZ
NM
DC
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242k · 18 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
37

Total granted

$242k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+21%

Still filing today

61%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $76k · revenue +20%
  • TI
    TREEPEOPLE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +111%
  • EL
    EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SO
    SAVE OUR CANYON
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • ML
    Mountain Lion Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -45%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
4
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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5
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
6
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
10
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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11
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
12
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is San Marino Motor Classic. 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

37 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. 37 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA HILLEL: $30,000 · OtherUCLA HILLELUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $27,020 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $10,450 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBarak Ballet Corporation: $8,490 · OtherBarak Ballet CorporationIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherBERKELEY LAW FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+29 more: $22,310 · Other+29 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $76,353 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI N…TREEPEOPLE INC: $49,585 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INCSAVE OUR CANYON: $25,000 · EnvironmentSAVE OUR CANYON+4 more: $1,494 · EnvironmentEARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · AnimalsMountain Lion Foundation: $2,500 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $2,500 · Animals+4 more: $550 · AnimalsCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $8,855 · HealthNMDP FOUNDATION: $6,550 · PhilanthropyHILLSIDE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropySAN MARINO MOTOR CLASSIC: $645 · Philanthropy+1 more: $57 · PhilanthropyPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $1,050 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $780 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DYBBUK: $750 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $600 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$114,270International$81,353Environment$76,079Animals$20,550Health$8,855Philanthropy$8,252Arts & Culture$6,430

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

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $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
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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–50%
    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.

    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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