Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MANSMANN FOUNDATION
MANSMANN FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,129,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,600,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $982k
What Mansmann Foundation does
Program
Entrepreneurs forever, the principle program of the Mansmann Foundation, implements long-term entrepreneurial peer groups composed of existing small business owners who are often isolated, disconnected, and intentionally excluded from the ceo peer group organizations accessible to much larger businesses. The entrepreneurs forever's model has been carefully designed to strengthen the relationships and skills needed for small business owners to stabilize and grow their small businesses, thus increasing family income, creating new jobs, and contributing to the vitality of their communities. Beginning in 2023, the Mansmann Foundation is doing business as entrepreneurs forever in order to avoid market confusion. Also, in 2022, the foundation submitted a request for an advance ruling from the irs, form 8940, to transition its status from a private operating foundation to a public charity, which was approved by the irs july 2023 with the 60 month period beginning january 1, 2023.
$3,298,425 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $1.4M (−61%).
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
Aj Drexler
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $600k → $575k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 MANSMANN FOUNDATION’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
MANSMANN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 MANSMANN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of MANSMANN FOUNDATION'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
MANSMANN FOUNDATION's revenue fell 78% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MANSMANN FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Small Business Administration$1.2M
- Department of Commerce$230k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MANSMANN FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANSMANN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MANSMANN FOUNDATION?
- MANSMANN FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,129,350 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,600,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MANSMANN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $6,129,350 in grants to MANSMANN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANSMANN FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANSMANN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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