FundersNorth Carolina

Mann Foundation Inc

Raleigh, NC · EIN 27-4011207. Reported 41 grants totalling $437,950 to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$437,950granted, 2020-2023
24organizations funded
40%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,447,407assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Mann Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $47,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Alliance MinistriesRaleigh, NC$111,000332022
Nc Hall of Fame IncChapel Hill, NC$57,500222023
Ravenscroft SchoolRaleigh, NC$45,000332023
Hayes Barton United Methodist ChurchRaleigh, NC$35,000332023
Wingate UniversityWingate, NC$31,000332023
Educational FoundationChapel Hill, NC$25,000112023
Madelyns FundCharlotte, NC$24,000332023
Diaper TrainRaleigh, NC$19,100222023
North Carolina Community FoundationRaleigh, NC$13,400332023
Band Together NcRaleigh, NC$10,000222023
Carethe John 316 CenterLittleton, NC$10,000222021
Fellowship of Christian AthletesRaleigh, NC$10,000112023
Unc Health FoundationRaleigh, NC$10,000112021
Chapel Hill Downtown PartnershipChapel Hill, NC$5,000112022
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyCary, NC$5,000112023
TableCarrboro, NC$5,000112021
The Jim Parke FoundationAlbany, NY$5,000112020
United Way of Greater TriangleDurham, NC$5,000112022
SafechildRaleigh, NC$4,000112022
The Green Chair ProjectRaleigh, NC$2,500222021
Overflowing HandsRaleigh, NC$1,750112023
Pave Se Raleigh Charter SchoolRaleigh, NC$1,500112023
Women's Giving Network of Wake CountyRaleigh, NC$1,200112022
Step Up MinistryRaleigh, NC$1,000112022

11 of 24 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 40%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
7 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20208$66,200$4,500
202110$111,700$8,600
202210$125,700$7,000
202313$134,350$9,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

North Carolina
$433K
New York
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Mann Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4904 Fox Branch Court, Raleigh, NC, 27614. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 27-4011207 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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