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· Private foundation

The Susan F Schiro and Peter J Manus Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$299k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Human Services$500kCommunity Improvement$308kEmployment$280kHousing & Shelter$250kHealth$184kPhilanthropy$105kPublic Benefit$20kEducation$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $260k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY$60,000
PROJECT PLACE$50,000
ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION$50,000
YMCA TRAINING INC$50,000
CITY OF LOWELL FBO CAREER CENTER$50,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$35,000
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON$3,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE - ROBERT IKEMORI QUAY OUTING$750
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $40k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $50k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $45k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $45k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $40k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $40k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+46%

Still filing today

45%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentArts & CultureHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • IF
    INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $308k · revenue +51%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +66%
  • TC
    THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MC
    MASSHIRE CAREER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +46%
  • MH
    MASSHIRE HAMPDEN COUNTY WORKFORCE BOARD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

6
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership Inc

Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…

Human Services
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

8
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROJECT PLACE — $250,000 · OtherPROJECT PLACEYMCA TRAINING INC — $210,000 · OtherYMCA TRAINING INCCITY OF LOWELL FBO CAREER CENTER — $140,000 · OtherCITY OF LOWELL FBO CAREER CENTERCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $69,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONLOWELL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD — $60,000 · OtherLOWELL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDMASSHIRE CAREER CENTER — $40,000 · Other+3 more — $41,500 · OtherINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $308,000 · Housing & ShelterINITIATIVE FOR A COM…ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN CIVI…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $115,000 · HealthBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $105,000 · PhilanthropyMetro North Regional Employment Board — $20,000 · EmploymentTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC — $11,000 · EducationWilliams College — $3,000 · EducationHARVARD MAGAZINE INC — $50 · Arts & Culture
Other$810,500Housing & Shelter$308,000Human Services$290,000Health$115,000Philanthropy$105,000Employment$20,000Education$14,000Arts & Culture$50

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $308,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $250,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetro North Regional Employment Board — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC
  • Who funds MASSHIRE HAMPDEN COUNTY WORKFORCE BOARD INC
  • Who funds Metro North Regional Employment Board
  • Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Susan F Schiro and Peter J Manus Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 19%
  • Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc72% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc19% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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