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Manaus

Manaus (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,658,886 to it, the largest being DORNICK FOUNDATION INC ($2,456,934). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$462k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
$0
8/23 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Manaus does

Mission

Manaus is a non-profit fund that works in partnership with others using the principle of community organizing and human-centered design to create sustainable solutions to issues that further equity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Social justice training to build capacity to achieve a more just society through investments and partnerships in non-profit endeavors. Manaus makes grants and loans that it describes as social capital to benefit lower income sectors of society.

    $414,113 spentof which $141,010 as grants$457,585 earned by the program
    71% of program spending
  2. Confluence of Early Childhood Education is a group of child advocates - business, education, and non-profit leaders - in the Roaring Fork Valley (Aspen to Parachute). Our goal as an organization is to develop a sustainable model offering high- quality early education opportunities for all members of our diverse, rural-resort community.

    $62,880 spentof which $6,500 as grants
    11% of program spending
  3. The Equity Action Project strives to create a regional community of organizations and individuals that work to dismantle oppressive systems with the support of ani-racism facilitation experts and community-wide partnerships.

    $109,748 spentof which $31,000 as grants$4,170 earned by the program
    19% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $586,741.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($149k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 453 ($674k) Expenses 106 ($1.3M) Net assets 47 ($803k)2020 Revenue 1795 ($2.7M) Expenses 210 ($2.5M) Net assets 58 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 703 ($1.0M) Expenses 125 ($1.5M) Net assets 33 ($565k)2022 Revenue 658 ($979k) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 21 ($365k)2023 Revenue 594 ($884k) Expenses 79 ($933k) Net assets 18 ($317k)2024 Revenue 310 ($462k) Expenses 62 ($732k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (310)Expenses (62)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $565k (−63%).

$1.8M
$1.2M
$1.5M
$565k
$373k
$335k
$0
2017201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Manaus’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.0M
’17
−$583k
’19
$182k
’20
−$444k
’21
−$200k
’22
−$49k
’23
−$270k
’24
4.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Sydney Schalit

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed5555777
Joined··+2+1+4+0+0
No longer listed··21200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $575k → $941k.

7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Manaus’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Manaus leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Manaus.

37%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 48% · 2019 43% · 2020 31% · 2021 47% · 2022 39% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

19% of Manaus's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of Manaus's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MI
NY
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Manaus has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−59% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Manaus

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Manaus?
Manaus (Colorado) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,658,886 to it, the largest being DORNICK FOUNDATION INC ($2,456,934). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Manaus have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $6,658,886 in grants to Manaus, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Manaus?
DORNICK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,456,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Manaus find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing