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Mansfield Cares Inc

Gainesville, GA · EIN 81-4861004. Reported 36 grants totalling $2,423,114 to 21 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

21organizations funded
$13,750median reported grant
$2,423,114granted, 2021-2024
50%of grantees funded again the next year
60%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Mansfield Cares Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 21 distinct organizations, with 60% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $13,750. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,074,744. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Muscular Dystrophy AssociationChicago, IL$1,446,470222023
Muscular Dystrophy AssociationChicago, IL$376,980112024
Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta IncBrookhaven, GA$149,879442024
Boys & Girls Club of Lanier IncGainesville, GA$80,000442024
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$76,000222024
Valero Energy FoundationSan Antonio, TX$66,000332024
Pga Tour IncPonte Vedra, FL$26,136112024
Trinity Presbyterian Baptist ChurchAtlanta, GA$25,000112024
Citgo Petroleum CorporationHouston, TX$22,666222024
Inspiredu IncAtlanta, GA$20,000222024
Musket CorporationHouston, TX$20,000222024
National Safety CouncilItasca, IL$20,000222024
Cristo Rey Birmingham Work StudyBirmingham, AL$15,000112024
Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High SchoolBirmingham, AL$15,000112023
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncAtlanta, GA$14,568222024
Blessings in a Backpack IncLouisville, KY$12,500112024
Special Operation Care Fund IncAtlanta, GA$10,000112022
The John Jarrard Community Projects FundGainesville, GA$8,915112022
Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids With CancerDallas, TX$6,000112023
Junior Achievement of North FloridaJacksonville, FL$6,000112021
Special Camps for Special KidsDallas, TX$6,000112024

10 of 21 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 21 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
International Affairs
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20214$424,605$23,439
20226$178,915$22,000
202311$1,239,694$15,000
202415$579,900$12,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

76% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Illinois
$1.8M
Georgia
$308K
Texas
$121K
District of Columbia
$76K
Florida
$32K
Alabama
$30K
Kentucky
$12K

Down to the city

Chicago, IL
$1.8M
Brookhaven, GA
$150K
Gainesville, GA
$89K
Washington, DC
$76K
Atlanta, GA
$70K
San Antonio, TX
$66K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $13,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Mansfield Cares Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1025 Airport Pkwy Sw, Gainesville, GA, 30501.

EIN 81-4861004 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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