Texas · Nonprofit
MANNAFEST
MANNAFEST (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Mannafest does
Mission
Food Pantry
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide food items to 6049 Households equaling 17,618 individuals 30% Children and 25% Seniors
$54,772 spentof which $9,500 as grants76% of program spendingProvide 700boxes of healthy kid-friendly food to families with school age children during June, July, August and December in addition to their regular food box
$6,358 spentof which $2,500 as grants9% of program spendingprovide hygiene items such as bath soap, toilet paper, shampoo, deodorant, and razors to an average of 6049 Households during the year.
$6,639 spent9% of program spendingProvide and deliver approximately 500 Thanksgiving Meals to Polk County residents who were homebound, homeless, or just alone for the holiday
$2,598 spent4% of program spendingProvide and pass out Upper Rooms (inspirational Christian magazine) to clients 6 times per year.
$357 spent0% of program spendingDeliver about 50 low income Senior Citizens on the 1st Saturday each month These clients live in Senior Housing and would find it very difficult to pick up food
$0 spent0% of program spendingServe as a distribution point for Senior Commodity Boxes, provided by USDA though the Southeast Texas Food Bank on the second Thursday of each month Low income seniors 60 years and older can receive a box in addition to any other food they receive from Food Pantries.
$0 spent0% of program spendingProvide miscellaneous ministry services to support our clients
$1,516 spent2% of program spendingWe always have Bibles to distribute as requested, 4 different teen or child age appropriate Bibles and Spanish language Bibles. These are provided by the Library Ministry at First Methodist
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe traditionally reach out to Senior Housing and Livingston Senior Apartments to deliver flowers and Easter wishes. The residents enjoy seeing the smiling faces of our volunteers
$0 spent0% of program spendingIn November each year our clients sign Christmas Cards with personal messages to be included in Christmas boxes that a local non-profit organizations sends to active Military personnel.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 11 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,240.
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.
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 $193k to $255k (+32%).
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.
97% of MANNAFEST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tena Oates
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MANNAFEST’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
MANNAFEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 MANNAFEST.
“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.
Where its funders are
77% of MANNAFEST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
MANNAFEST has grown faster than half of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MANNAFEST
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MANNAFEST?
- MANNAFEST (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MANNAFEST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,000 in grants to MANNAFEST.
- Who is the largest funder of MANNAFEST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANNAFEST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 3 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