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Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$487k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$37k52%
FY202413$26k8%
FY202314$31k7%
FY202216$41k13%
FY202115$32k7%
FY202018$39k17%
FY201918$31k6%
FY201818$30k28%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$90kPublic Benefit$46kAnimals$31kHuman Services$28kEducation$25kReligion$18kCivil Rights$17kInternational$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
AR
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedia Research Center: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProject Veritas: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $16,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDing Darling Wildlife Society Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFreedomworks Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Alliance: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: $13,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Housing and Resources Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShell Museum and Educational Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSanibel Public Library Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanibel Community Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCaptiva Island Historical Society: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGulf Coast Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Literary Classics of the US Inc D/B/A Library of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Cultural Review: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Review Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation IncFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Lat Foundation · Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc · Robert C & Jane E Holder Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust

How much does Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust give?
Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust reported 32 grants totaling $38,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Public Benefit (15%), Animals (10%).
Who are Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Media Research Center ($22k), Project Veritas ($18k), Young America's Foundation ($17k).
Does Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, Lat Foundation, Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc.
Where is Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust based?
Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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