Illinois · Nonprofit
THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION
THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53,235 to it, the largest being AS YOU SOW ($53,235). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $31M
What The Manaaki Foundation does
Programs
Sculpture park at waitakaruru arboretum: the park is a 17.5 ha rehabilitation of a former derelict quarry undertaken over a 34 year period. The arboretum contains a large collection of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants representing global botanical diversity. It's a registered permanent forest sink with more than 30,000 trees. The planting is integrated into a landscape of ponds, rocks, pathways and art works. The trust aims to heighten environmental awareness. The trust will maintain the formerly derelict quarry site at 207 scotsman valley road, tauwhare, hamilton, waikato as an arboretum and sculpture park (sculpture park) so as to: (I) preserve and enhance the natural environment for the benefit of the community; and (ii) promote the public's understanding and appreciation of environmental awareness, culture and the arts.
$75,339 spentThe one earth young filmmakers contest is a manaaki program designed to offer youth a platform to address the issues and solutions for climate change. The contest is open to students from grade 3 up through age 25. The program is offered to students worldwide.the one earth young filmmakers contest is part of the one earth film festival. All winning films are screened at a live award event in chicago each september and streamed live online. All winning films are also screened alongside professional films at the one earth film festival in april each year.
$20,373 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $28M to $31M (+12%).
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.
Board chair
Susan Crothers Gee
Director, president of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE MANAAKI 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.
Where its funders are
THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE MANAAKI 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION?
- THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $53,235 to it, the largest being AS YOU SOW ($53,235). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $53,235 in grants to THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION?
- AS YOU SOW is the largest funder on record, with $53,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MANAAKI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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