Mangrove Foundation

The Mangrove Foundation was a subsidiary of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focused its advocacy on health, social, and politically left-of-center public policy causes in Australia, Bermuda, Ireland, South Africa, the United States, and Vietnam. 1 2

At-A-Glance

Issue Areas: Environmental Policy
Formation:

2000

Affiliated with:

Atlantic Philanthropies

Status:

Defunct (shut down as of 2017)

Location: Hamilton, View on map
Tax ID: 98-0216844
Most Recent Filing: 2017
Budget (2017): Assets: $0 Revenue: $0 Expenses: $12,451,547

Contents

    Established in 2000 as a philanthropic arm of the Mangrove Capital Partners, the Mangrove Foundation focused heavily on environmentalist issues and left-of-center women’s interests around the world. 1

    As of 2017, the group appears to be defunct. 3

    Background

    The Mangrove Foundation, also known as Foundation de Luxembourg, was an initiative of Mangrove Capital Partners. Mangrove Capital Partners was based in Luxembourg. 2

    The Mangrove Foundation advocated for establishing Mangrove Capital Partners as a major corporate giver having a visible impact through donations. 4

    The Mangrove Foundation was founded in 2000. 1 The group financially supported other organizations to push environmentalist goals. 2

    The organization had $1 assets and $0 revenue in its 2017 budget year, according to its 990 form, though it had more than $12 million in expenses. 1

    The Mangrove Foundation claimed to promote social welfare throughout the world through grants to nonprofit organizations that assist the disadvantaged children and youth. 1

    As of 2017, the group appears to be defunct. 3

    Advocacy

    The foundation claimed to be on the ground one week per month and in close contact with NGOs and beneficiaries of the donations “in building a virtuous ecosystem around the environmental dimension.” 4 Its environmentalist grantmaking focused on fixing land degradation, resource depletion, “energy misuse,” water accessibility, and climate change. 4

    The organization’s projects included sustainable water in Cuba and sustainable energy in Togo through creating a national network of small shops to support women empowerment. 5

    The Mangrove Foundation claimed to have organized “solidarity groups” in the Congo to promote economic empowerment of vulnerable women, irrigation in Mali through construction of dams to retain rain water and replanting trees, and on women empowerment in India through providing seed capital for business startups. The organization further claimed to support community medics in Bangladesh while training women to be health care workers, reforestation in Senegal, enhancing fish production in the Philippines, and a girls’ orphanage in Gambia. 5

    In the United States, the Mangrove Foundation supported Tree Media’s production of the “Green World Rising” series narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio warning of the dangers of climate change. 5

    Funding

    Grants from Mangrove Foundation

    The following list grants from the Mangrove Foundation between 2010 and 2016: 6

    YearRecipient NameGrant AmountGrant Description
    2017Green For All$500,000To improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for low-income youth of color and expand and diversify the health care workforce by providing intensive technology and coding skills training to Linked Learning health career pathway students in Oakland, California
    2016Arizona Capital Representation$100,000To reduce death sentences and executions in Arizona through case consulting, direct representation, and training
    2016BOLD c/o Praxis Project$58,000To create a pipeline and network of visionary, racially diverse leaders to challenge and advance comprehensive solutions to anti-black racism and structural inequality by developing the Atlantic Fellows program for Racial Equity at Columbia University
    2016Bridgespan Group$4,000,000To execute a five-year initiative that will dramatically increase the number of philanthropic big bets on social change. This grant is one of a cluster of four focused on active curation of Atlantic’s learning and experience
    2016Brooklyn Film Networks$100,000To produce short documentary films about the scope and impact of Atlantic’s 30-year plus years of grantmaking in the United States and the values and giving philosophy of Chuck Geeney
    2016Center for Community Change$42,000To prepare for creating a pipeline and network of visionary, racially diverse leaders to challenge and advance comprehensive solutions to anti-black racism and structural inequality
    2016Center for Community Change Action$1,500,000To improve the lives of vulnerable people through a capital grant to enable the Center for Community Change Action to purchase its building, generate ongoing funds for use in advocacy, enable incubation of progressive organizations and provide convening
    2016Center on Budget and Policy Priorities$3,500,000To support the launch of a new, in-house institute to develop in-depth, long-term solutions to major policy issues affecting low-income, vulnerable populations and for a leadership development program on fiscal policy
    2016Cornell University – College of Arts and Science$10,000,000To support the expansion of the Center for the study of inequality
    2016Cornell University Law School$3,250,000To support the establishment of the International Center on Capital Punishment
    2016Equal Justice USA$300,000To strenghen death penalty repeal and reform campaigns by providing strategic assistance in policy, organizing, and communications work
    2016Green For All$500,000To improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for low-income youth of colour and expand and diversify the health care workforce by providing intensive technology and coding skills training to Linked Learning health career pathway students in Oakland, California
    2016Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society$87,000To create a pipeline and network of visionary, racially diverse leaders to challenge and advance comprehensive solutions to anti-black racism and structural inequality by developing the Atlantic Fellows program for Racial Equity at Columbia University
    2016Media Impact Funders$500,000To support the organization’s core mission to help grantmakers better understand the intersection of media and philanthropic mission and vice versa, and to serve as convener and catalyst for philanthropic partnerships with media
    2016NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund$42,000To create a pipeline and network of visionary, racially diverse leaders to challenge and advance comprehensive solutions to anti-black racism and structural inequality by developing the Atlantic Fellows program for Racial Equity at Columbia University
    2016National Academy of Sciences$125,000To strengthen accountability for improved educational outcomes for vulnerable students through the development of a comprehensive set of indicators of programme effectiveness and disparities reduction
    2016National Coalition of Abolish the Death Penalty$24,988To coordinate the implementation of the Abolition 2025 Campaign strategy through the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s affiliate network
    2016National Council of La Raza$75,000To substantially increase the number of Latino children with health insurance coverage by promoting Medicaid expansion and new coverage options in selected states, supporting CHIP reauthorization and improving communications to Latino communities about av
    2016National Economic and Social Rights Initiative$125,000To support strategic planning and coordination across Atlantic’s diverse array of school discipline grantees, including grassroots organizing groups and legal advocates as well as professional educator and judicial organizations
    2016Nex Mexico Center on Law and Poverty Inc$100,000To build a sustainable, statewide infrastructure for health insurance coverage for children and youth In New Mexico
    2016Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors$2,000,000To build awareness and action for Giving While Living and time-limited philanthropy through a multiyear campaign and sophisticated donor education materials. This grant is one of a cluster of four focused on active curation of Atlantic’s learning and experience
    2016Texas Defender Service$400,000To reduce the use of the death penalty in Texas and Pennsylvania, and to reduce support for and use of the death penalty nationally through strategic communications
    2016Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$59,684,000To create a pipeline and network of visionary, racially diverse leaders to challenge and advance comprehensive solutions to anti-black racism and structural inequality by developing the Atlantic Fellows program for Racial Equity at Columbia University
    2015Arizona Capital Representation Project$100,000To reduce death sentences ad executions in Arizona through case consulting, direct representation, and training
    2015Bridgespan Group$385,000To build philanthropic practice knowledge, attract additional funding for social change, and improve returns on investment by applying a strategic review lens to big bet grantmaking in Atlantic’s history, and by disseminating case studies and findings to other funders and intermediaries
    2015Brooklyn Film Networks$300,000To produce two short documentary films about the scope and impact of Atlantic’s 30-plus years of grantmaking in the United States and the values and giving philosophy of Chuck Feeney
    2015Center on Budget and Policy Priorities$2,500,000To support the launch of a new, in-house institute to develop in-depth, long-term solutions to major policy issues affecting low-income, vulnerable populations and for a leadership development program on fiscal policy
    2015China Medical Board$40,000,000To advance health equity in Southeast Asia by identifying, connecting, and preparing a generation of young multi-disciplinary leaders dedicated to driving systemic change to advance health equity
    2015Economic Policy Institute$150,000To conduct economic analyses of key Social Security reform proposals for their impact on low-wage workers, older women, and people of color
    2015Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, Inc.$1,250,000To promote narrative change for racial equity by supporting the Race and Poverty Project to educate the public on the history of racial discrimination faced by African-American communities
    2015Equal Justice USA$1,600,000To strengthen death penalty repeal and reform campaigns by providing strategic assistance in policy, organizing, and communications work
    2015Grantmakers in Aging$117,250To improve older audult economic security/retirement security by increasing the visibility of the issues and engaging and educating philanthropy, national ageing organizations and the general public
    2015Green For All$2,000,000To improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for low-income youth of color and expand and diversify the health care workforce by providing intensive technology and coding skills training to Linked Learning health career pathway students in Oakland, California
    2015Gulf Region Advocacy Center$50,000To reduce death sentences and executions in states with high use of the death penalty through training of capital defense teams, consulting on cases and direct representation
    2015John Jay Foundation$1,000,000To create a professorship to build a sustainable portfolio of research, policy advocacy, teaching, and mentorship on race, bias, and policing
    2015MASS Design Group$128,540To extend the evaluation of capital building investments, applying the assessment framework to consider impact of Atlantic’s investments at the University of California, San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, and disseminate implication to other funders, organizations receiving capital grants and intermediaries
    2015Massachusetts General Hospital Palliative Care Service$75,000To improve access by getting palliative home care services covered under the National Health Insurance, expanding the home care model for patients with serious chronic illnesses, and providing training of palliative care trainers and leaders
    2015National Academy of Sciences$125,000To strengthen accountability for improved educational outcomes for vulnerable students through the development of a comprehensive set of indicators of programme effectiveness and disparities reduction
    2015National Coalition of Abolish the Death Penalty$150,012To coordinate the implementation of the Abolition 2025 Campaign strategy through the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s affiliate network
    2015National Council of La Raza$75,000To substantially increase the number of Latino children with health insurance coverage by promoting Medicaid expansion and new coverage options in selected states, supporting CHIP reauthorization and improving communications to Latino communities about available options
    2015New Venture Fund$250,000To connect advocacy and social change organizations to upcoming film and TV content and storylines that are relevant to their work, making it easier for advocates and storytellers to use popular culture to build momentum for change on important social issues
    2015Open Society Foundation$5,000,000To ensure the longer-term sustainability of a small number of key human rights organizations that advocate for the Constitution in South Africa
    2015Open Society Institute – Baltimore$250,000To advance implementation of positive discipline reform in Maryland through training and technical assistance to districts across the state
    2015Pathfinder International$300,000To complete the development of a health information and management system in Thai Nguyen Province and prepare the model for wider adoption through Viet Nam
    2015Philanthropy New York$800,000To support a fellowship programme of diverse emerging leaders in philanthropy
    2015Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law$175,000To advance policy influence goals concerning community schools, Elev8, and school-based health centers by increasing the integration of data and evaluation findings, improving the communications plans, and enhancing capacity of other local and nationalgrantees to tailor their advocacy in light of evaluation results and emergent opportunities
    2015Social Science Research Council$925,000To enable an external evaluation of the Health Equity in Southeast Asia initiative, providing formative evaluation support to the new initiative and developmentally appropriate summative feedback concerning performance during the initial three years of the long term project
    2015Texas Defender Service$1,100,000To reduce the use of the death penalty in Texas and Pennsylvania, and to reduce support for and use of the death penalty nationally through strategic communications
    2015Thaler Pekar & Partners$475,000To complete the Atlantic Philanthropies oral history video project, the purpose of which is to record the memories and experiences of staff, board members, and other in the history and evolution of the foundation
    2015The Marshall Project$2,000,000To promote narrative change for racial equity by supporting in-depth analysus and investigative reporting on race and criminal justice
    2015Trustees of Boston College$50,000To support a two-day conference, co-sponsored by Boston College Law School and the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, to develop scholarship benefitting the public discourse surrounding issues of philanthropy and the lifespan of foundations
    2014Clear Thinking Communications$205,000To synthesize key Atlantic-supported evaulation and research reports in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by producing accessible summaries for dissemination to target audiences
    2014Grantmakers in Aging$182,750To improve older audult economic security/retirement security by increasing the visibility of the issues and engaging and education philanthropy, national ageing organizations and the general public
    2014Center on Budget and Policy Priorities$9,000,000To support the launch of a new, in-house institute to develop in-depth, long-term solutions to major policy issues affecting low-income, vulnerable populations and for a leadership development program on fiscal policy
    2014Clear Thinking Communications$200,000To synthesize key Atlantic-supported evaulation and research reports in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by producing accessible summaries for dissemination to target audiences
    2014NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund$4,600,000To support data analyses, litigation, policy advocacy, direct representation, technical assistance, coordination and donor engagement to promote local, state, and national school disciplinary policy reform
    2014NEO Philanthropy$3,000,000To eliminate zero tolerance school disciplinary policies by supporting grassroots advocacy through the Just and Fair Schools Fund
    2014National Economic and Social Rights Initiative$893,750To support strategic planning and coordination across Atlantic’s diverse array of school discipline grantees, including grassroots organizing groups and legal advocates as well as professional educator and judicial organizations
    2014Regents of the University of California, San Fransisco Campus$500,000To support replication and sustainability of school-based health centres and full service community schools by documenting and disseminating lessons about improving the quality of health care and developing financing options
    2014Youth Development Incorporated$875,000To expand and sustain full-service community schools and comprehensive school-based health centres by participating in local and national evaluation, disseminating lessons learned, and utilizing evaluation findings to engage policymakers, practitioners, and the general public
    2014Community Service Society of New York$800,000To build a sustainable, statewide infrastructure for health insurance coverage for children and youth in New York
    2014National Council of La Raza$450,000To substantially increase the number of Latino children with health insurance coverage by promoting Medicaid expansion and new coverage options in selected states, supporting CHIP reauthorization and improving communications to Latino communities about available options
    2014New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty Inc$700,000To build a sustainable, statewide infrastructure for health insurance coverage for children and youth in New Mexico
    2014Florida Communicty Health Action$800,000To build a sustainable, statewide infrastructure for children and youth in Florida
    2014McClanahan Associates, Inc.$280,861To assess the costs and benefits of Elev8 in order to promote increased support for comprehensive community schools reform
    2014Utilization-Focused Evaluation$200,000To conduct an evaluation of the campaign structure, strategy and implementation, and to produce case studies on the successful repeal campaigns
    2014Arizona Capital Representation$400,000To reduce death sentences and executions in Arizona through case consulting, direct representation, and training
    2014North Star Planning and Evaluation Consultants, Inc$155,000To strengthen the Economic Security field and enhance the sustainability of grantee efforts by concluding with a cluster evaluation of the Ageing’s Economic Security portfolio describing goals, strategy and investments, assessing impact, and extracting lessons and legacy effects
    2014Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.$177,149To facilitate the articulation and application of lessons from Atlantic’s KidsWell-National League of Cities grant to other national reform efforts by evaluating the implementation and outcomes of the municipality-focused competitive regrant model for enrolling children and families
    2014Center for Evaluation Innovation (Innovation Network fiscal sponsor)$1,350,000To facilitate the articulation and application of lessons from Atlantic’s diverse U.S. advocacy grantmaking by evaluating and disseminating cross-initiative findings on strategic litigation, (c)(4) grants, capacity-building, collaborative funding and other strategies
    2014Zero to Three$600,000To build a sustainable text messaging platform in KidsWell states to connect mother and children to health insurance coverage and to increase enrolment
    2014The W. Haywood Burns Institute$250,000To reduce racial disparities in school discipline by adapting risk assessment protocols and procedures used in juvenile justice systems to the school setting
    2014Open Society Institute – Baltimore$250,000To advance implementation of positive discipline reform in Maryland through training and technical assistance to districts across the state
    2014Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago$425,000To support the assessment of School-based health centre use and academic achievement within Elev8 full-service community schools and to inform practitioners, advocates, and policy makers by using a variety of dissemination channels
    2014Oakland Unified School District$11,000,000To improve educational and long-term employment outcomes for low-income youth of color and expand and diversify the health care workforce by providing college and career-readiness supports to prepare students for health care careers in Oakland, California
    2014Center to Advance Palliative Care$1,000,000To increase the global palliative care workforce through the development of an online educational platform and e-learning curriculum
    2014Center for Community Change Action$7,500,000To improve the lives of vulnerable people through a capital grant to enable the Center for Community Change Action to purchase its building, generate ongoing funds for use in advocacy, enable incubation of progressive organizations and provide convening
    2014United States Cancer Pain Relief$1,030,000To implement the World Health Organization’s resolution to strengthen palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course, calling on all national member states to integrate palliative care and pain relief into their health systems
    2014National Public Education Support$300,000To improve educational outcomes for low-iincome children and youth of color by developing a hub that mobilizes influential grantee organizations to advance an integrated approach to community schools, school discipline reform and school-based health clinics
    2014Magnum Cultural Foundation$330,000To share the scope and impact of Atlantic’s investments in capital projects, by developing a book and complimentary compendium, provisionally titled ‘Building Change: The Capital Investments of the Atlantic Philanthropies’, which compiles, through photos and written narrative, the entirety of these investments through the Founding Chairman and our programmes
    2014National Coalition of Abolish the Death Penalty$175,000To coordinate the implementation of the Abolition 2025 Campaign strategy through the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s affiliate network
    2014Upworthy$300,000To drive awareness and movement around several issues by creating strategic content designed to get issues to the top of the social newsfeed
    2013Duke University Office of Research$400,000To produce reports and case studies that record the lessons of Atlantic’s final years and capture the impact of key Atlantic-funded projects and programmes
    2013Pacific News Service/New America Media$400,000To promote the economic and health security, and enhance the voices, of low-income ethnic elders by increasing the coverage of targeted issues in ethnic news media
    2013National Coalition of Abolish the Death Penalty$950,000To coordinate the implementation of the Abolition 2025 Campaign strategy through the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s affiliate network
    2013Tides Center$500,000To advance fair, racially equitable and effective criminal justice reform by creating a coordinated communications infrastructure to strengthen the sector’s ability to generate public support for policy change
    2013Pathfinder International$500,000To complete the development of a health information and management system in Thai Nguyen Province and prepare the model for wider adoption through Viet Nam
    2013Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders$250,000To promote the health and economic security of low-income diverse elders by strengthening the Diverse Elders Coalition and improving its capacity to advocate for protecting and improving Social Security benefits and increased access to other federally-funded programmes
    2013Children’s Defense Fund$3,196,000To increase childrens’ access to health insurance coverage and accelerate adoption of better school disciplinary practices by engaging school district leaders in reform
    2013Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP — Manatt Health Solutions$1,226,000To utilize strong analytic ability to provide technical and legal analysis to Kidswell grantees, track and monitor the Kidswell initiative and develop and maintain the Kidswell website
    2013Advocates for Children and Youth$425,000To advocate and inform the development of permanent systems for universal health coverage for children in Maryland
    2013Center for Community Change$600,000To engage young adults in advocacy, outreach, and enrolment to protect and expand health insurance coverage for at least hald of the 10.3 million uninsured young adults from ages 18-26
    2013Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago$800,000To design and implement a multi-method evaluation of Chicago Elev8 to help improve the delivery and integration of school-based services, ensure students successfully transition to the ninth grade, and to advance policies and funding that support Elev8 and community schools locally and nationally
    2013Foundation Center$500,000To support general operation and the creation of a curated knowledge and information sharing platform to disseminate learnings of Atlantic’s programme and geographic areas
    2013Global Links$1,050,000To promote Global Links’ sustainability by contributing to the purchase and renovation of a new headquarters, to support graduates of the Latin America Medical School and to provide medial aid to the Cuban public health system for recovery from Hurricane Sandy
    2013Gulf Region Advocacy Center$200,000To reduce death sentences and executions in states with high use of the death penalty through training of capital defense teams, consulting on cases and direct representation
    2013Economic Policy Institute$525,000To conduct economic analyses of key Social Security reform proposals for their impact on low-wage workers, older women, and people of color
    2013Massachussets General Hospital$225,000To improve access by getting palliative home care services covered under the National Health Insurance, expanding the home care model for patients with serious chronic illnesses, and providing training of palliative care trainers and leaders
    2013Council of State Governments Justice Center$250,000To reform zero tolerance disciplinary policies by disseminating a set of consensus reccomendations on school discipline to federal, state and local policymakers and judicial and educational leaders
    2013Research Foundation of the City University of New York$598,217To reform school discipline policies by expanding the knowledge and capacity of educators and judges to implement positive disciplinary practices through convenings, tool development, writing, research, and an embedded fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice
    2013Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice$450,000To improve the quality of life for older adults and individuals with disabilities and to improve the working conditions of direct-care immigrant workers through policy changes that are supported by a new public narrative that links immigration reform issues with older adults’ care needs
    2013The Law Office of the Southern Center of Human Rights$50,000To reduce the number of executions and new and existing death sentences in Georgia and Alabama through litigation
    2012Alliance for Justice$200,000To assist Atlantic grantees in conducting more strategic lobbying through training, legal, and technical assistance that ensures compliance with applicable state and federal laws regarding advocacy
    2012American Civil Liberties Union$800,000To support legal advocacy to advance school discipline policy reform
    2012MomsRising$1,325,000To ensure increased access to childrens’ health coverage by enhancing the capacity of KidsWell state partners to use social media, online organising, story collection, and on-the-ground actions strategically to mobilize support
    2012Vera Institute of Justice$750,000To find and address evidence of racial bias in prosecutorial discretion by analysing data and making policy reccomendations in three cities: Milwaukee, New York (Manhattan borough) and San Francisco
    2012Movement Strategy Center$266,800To engage public high school students in federal advocacy to help reform school disciplinary policies
    2012National Association of State Boards of Education$300,000To advance school disciplinary policy reform by strengthening the capacity of state boards of education to adopt and implement educational policies that support positive discipline and limit exclusionary discipline
    2012The Law Office of the Southern Center of Human Rights$650,000To reduce the number of executions and new and existing death sentences in Georgia and Alabama through litigation
    2010Actual Film$25,000To Support Higher Ground, a feature documentary about Mohamad Nasheed, President of the Maldives, and his efforts to fight global climate change
    2010American Youth Work Center$100,000To sustain and enhance the capacity of Youth Today by enhancing its identity and marketability, diversifying revenue streatms and utilising new media strategies
    2010Aspen Institute$50,000To continue the public engagement and support for solving the AO/Dioxin legacy from the Vietnam War
    2010Be the Change, Inc.$200,000To support the program’s ongoing efforts to promote service, focus on a new campaign to fight against poverty, and maintain its existing ongoing campaigns
    2010Boston College$600,000To expand the use of participant-directed long-term care services through technical assistance to states
    2010Boston College$700,000To expand the use of participant-directed long-term care services through technical assistance to states
    2010Brennan Center for Justice$134,000To strenghten democracy by enhancing civic literacy and citizens’ engagement
    2010Brookings Institution$25,000To support a research paper on fillibuster reform
    2010Economic Policy Institute$100,000To support the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education efforts to advocate for new accountability systems that combine appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods of assessing education, health, and social development of children and youth in high poverty communities
    2010Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.$50,000To engage older adults residing in public houing to promote age-friendly improvements in their housing and communities
    2010Faith Partnerships Incorporated$100,000To develop a strategy to engage African American churches in social action around progressive ageing issues
    2010Families USA Foundation, Inc.$180,000To provide services and support to the Health Insurance and Assistance Program (SHIP), which provides vital information and supportive services to millions of Medicare beneficiaries
    2010Federation of Appalachian Housing$50,000To enhance its work with very low income older adult housing by evaluating new and existing opportunities and improved planning
    2010Firelight Media$250,000To support the programme’s work with young filmmakers of color
    2010Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$105,000To coordinate philanthropic resources to support the successful launch of the Social Innovation Fund, a public-private partnership through the White House to invest in promising, innovative nonprofit organizations to help strengthen their evidence-base and develop the infrastructure to address challenges in communities of need
    2010Housing Assistance Council$100,000To develop the strategy to formalize and expand its work providing affordable, quality housing for low-income older adults in rural areas; and to increase advocacy efforts to preserve existing rural rental housing stock for very low-income older adults
    2010Journal Donation Project$142,000To aid in the development of research and teaching capacity in higher education institutions through building scholarly hard-copy and oline journal archives
    2010Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$53,333To support efforts to achieve state compliance with the National Voter Registration Act
    2010M & R Strategic Services$85,000To support an evaluation of the Healthcare for America NOW (HCAN) campaign
    2010M & R Strategic Services$85,000To support an evaluation of the Healthcare for America NOW (HCAN) campaign
    2010National Caucus and Center on Black Aged$300,000To develop a strategy that will strengthen its ability to become an effective national advocate for African American elders
    2010National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$225,000To strenghten organizational health as well as to encourage increased support by current funders and potential new donors
    2010New World Philanthropy$50,000To provide training and resources to foster more equitable participation in American democracy by increasing the number of new Americans runnig for office and participating in U.S. elections
    2010Population Council$250,000To improve the quality and utilization of primary health services in Thai Nguyen province, especially for poor and remote communes, by establishing an effective health management information system, applying evidence-based management, and developing evidence-based teaching and research for provincial medical schools
    2010Population Council$250,000To improve the quality and utilization of primary health services in Thai Nguyen province, especially for poor and remote communes, by establishing an effective health management information system, applying evidence-based management, and developing evidence-based teaching and research for provincial medical schools
    2010Practicable Legacy Strategies, LLC$75,000To convene the superintendents who lead the schools districts Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and three districts in New Mexico to explore their options of and support for the Elev8 Initiative and facilitate peer learning about best and promising practices to educate its students who are most in need
    2010Progressive Strategies, LLC$75,000To address progressive policy and infrastructure issues and create more collaboration between the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the broader progressive community
    2010Project Vote$53,333To support effots to achieve state compliance with Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to provide voter registration services to those applying for or receiving public assistance benefits
    2010Proteus Fund$150,000Support for the creation of an independent, nonpartisan Blue Ribbon Panel on Detainee Treatment to examine and report on torture practices and abuses committeed by previous U.S. Administrations, and to press the importance of accountability while advocacy efforts continue for the creation of a Presidential Commission on Torture and Accountability
    2010Public/Private Ventures$200,000To continue national support of Elev8, a community-based initiative that brings together schools, nonprofits, philanthropy, parents, and members of the community to ensure that students have the resources they need to succeed in school and in life. This six-month grant will enable Elev8 to take advantage of time-sensitive opportunities, continue to transition to a community engagement initiative and re-engineer Elev8 national support services
    2010Rethink Schools$75,000To disseminate information about education policy and practices to reform school discipline and zero-tolerance policies through its online education journal
    2010Salzburg Global Seminar, Inc$26,000To support the attendance of four Vietnamese health professionals at the 2010 Salzburg Global Seminar on healthcare in Austria
    2010Spitfire Strategies$60,000To provide three grantees of the U.S. Ageing Programme with strategic communications skills and competencies through their participation in an Executive Training Programme
    2010The Schott Foundation for Public Education$250,000To support the Opportunity to Learn campaign to advocate for state and federal policies to improve the quality of public education for low-income children and children of colour, and to promote resource equity reform nationally and increase engagement in public education reform
    2010The State of the USA$125,000To ensure that information about older adults is included in a new federally-authorized national database by supporting the development of the State of the USA older adult data framework
    2010Tides Center$250,000To produce top-notch investigative journalism that will have an impact on institutions, individuals, or the national debate
    2010University of California Berkeley$37,500To provide instruction to journalists specializing in reporting on immigration policies, practices, and legisltaiton
    2010Vietnam Veterans of America$600,000To improve the mential health care system for Khanh Hoa and Da Nang provinces by implementing community-based mental health programmes as a component of the Primary Health Care network in these provinces
    2010Vietnam Veterans of America$600,000To improve the mential health care system for Khanh Hoa and Da Nang provinces by implementing community-based mental health programmes as a component of the Primary Health Care network in these provinces
    2010Washington University in St. Louis$50,000To design a research and policy agenda for the long-term initiative to build and preserve assets for the economic security for older adults
    2010Center for Civic Policy$35,000To build a national technical assistance project to help create a 501 (c) (3) civic engagement table in Texas with the goal of increasing civic engagement and access to modern organizing tools for social justice organizations
    2010Common Ground Community Housing Development Fund Corp., Inc.$50,000To develop an organizing and leadership effort focused on engaging older adults in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn, New York, in an effort to counter residents dislocation and to build a healthier, more stable community
    2010Democracy Alliance$250,000To support new member recruitment and establish the organization as a more sigificant progressive funding force
    2010Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action Ltd$53,333To support its effots to achieve state compliance with Section 7 of the National voter Registration Act, which requires states to provide voter registration services to those applying for or receiving public assistance benefits
    2010Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action Ltd$200,000To conduct research and make recommendations in four areas: leadership structures, the roles of long-time social change leaders, the needs of newer generations of leadership, and ways to bolster the field of leadership development
    2009AARP$100,000Senior Health Reform Outreach
    2009Advancement Project$390,000Recovery for communities of color
    2009Campaign for America’s Future$290,000Investigation and Communications on the Financial Crisis
    2009Center for Civic Policy$40,000National Technical Assistance Project
    2009Center for Economic and Policy Research$170,000To Promote a Financial Reform
    2009Green For All$375,000Building an inclusive Green economy
    2009Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund$500,000For purchase of Media Advertising to support a fair and independent judiciary
    2009Ma Foundation for Women$495,000Elevating the voices of women in the Economic Recovery
    2009National Physician Alliance$100,000Physician mobilization for Healthcare Reform
    2009National Training and Information Center$490,000Bank Accountability and Transparency campaign
    2009Ohio State University Foundation$200,000Fair Recovery: From Crisis to Opportunity for marginalized communities
    2009Partnership Project Action Fund$2,500,000Collaboration and Activism for the environment
    2009Progressive Strategies, LLC$75,000Policy and Progressive infrastructuring issues
    2009ProgressNow Action$318,000Unity ’09 In-State Communications Coordinators
    2009ProgressNow Action$200,000American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – Education and Advocacy
    2009Public Interest Projects Action$550,000A Call to Action for Real Financial Services Reform
    2009Sixteen Thirty Fund$192,000Unity ’09-State Based Coordinators
    2009Sixteen Thirty Fund$351,000Unity ’09-Influentials Project
    2009Sound Alliance$150,000Graasroot Organizing and Green Jobs Training
    2009State Voices$250,000State Voices Policy Project
    2009The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute$450,000Financial Reform & Economic Initiative
    2009Tides Advocacy Fund$2,500,000Environment and Climate Action Fund
    2009Tides Center$200,000Opportunity Agenda: Recovering Opportunity
    2009Working America$229,000Winning on issues in Indiana
    2009Population Council$3,000,000Improving Health Information Management Capacity for Primary Health Care in Thai Nguyen Province
    2008Boston College$3,500,000To expand the use of participant-directed long-term care services through technical assistance to states
    2008Vietnam Veterans of America$2,500,000To improve the mential health care system for Khanh Hoa and Da Nang provinces by implementing community-based mental health programmes as a component of the Primary Health Care network in these provinces
    Total:$241,199,816

    Leadership

    Hugo Mahieu was the CEO of the Mangrove Foundation. He previously worked as the managing director for the foundation, and also held executive positions at HBC Group, BoD, and the Barefoot Startup Studio. 7

    Paul Helminger was the president of the Mangrove Foundation. Helminger is a member of the Luxembourg parliament for the liberal Democratic Party. He is also a former Mayor of the City of Luxembourg. 8

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2017 $12,451,547 View
    2016 $123,395,050 $-62,742,719 $87,715,182 View
    2015 $156,801,493 $49,598,858 $66,264,271 View
    2014 $192,771,125 $56,849,839 $57,286,519 View
    2013 $229,791,132 $27,540,634 $21,959,255 View

    Prior year filings: 2012, 2011

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    References

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    2. Mangrove Foundation. Accessed December 5, 2020. https://www.fdlux.lu/en/node/309
    3. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Mangrove Foundation. 2017. Part I. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/980216844/03_2019_prefixes_95-99%2F980216844_201712_990O_2019031116164365
    4. Mangrove Foundation. Mangrove Capital Projects. Accessed December 5, 2020. https://www.mangrove.vc/mangrove-foundation
    5. Our Projects. Mangrove Foundation. Accessed December 5, 2020. https://www.mangrove-foundation.com/projects
    6. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Mangrove Foundation. 2010-2016.
    7. Hugo Mahieu. LinkedIn. Accessed December 5, 2020. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugomahieu/
    8. Our Governance. Mangrove Foundation. Accessed December 5, 2020. https://www.mangrove-foundation.com/our-governance