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· Private foundation
GREGORY M& DEBORAH MDESAYE
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$57k
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
7
Communities
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of GREGORY M& DEBORAH MDESAYE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
qtrreliefaidchurchcolts neckcatholic
2019
augustinechurchcatholic
2020
mountmarychurchbankcolts neckcatholic
2021
exemptmarysisterschurchcatholic
2022
exemptcolts neck
2023
exempt
2024
exempt
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
$150
Median grant
7
States reached
$813k
Total assets
Largest grants
- QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS CHAPEL$24,000
- MOST HOLY TRINITY SEMINARY$22,000
- SISTERS OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS$10,000
- AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE$300
- JUDICIAL WATCH$300
- FULFILL - FOOD BANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES$150
- PRIESTS FOR LIFE$150
- LUNCH BREAK$150
- AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE$150
- ST PAUL CENTER$75
- LIFESITE NEWS$50
- BIRTH HAVEN$50
- CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY$50
- FRANCISCAN FRIARS ATONEMENT-MEMORIAL$30
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 59 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
59
45
Total granted
$1.6M
$62k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+25%
+10%
Still filing today
22%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SRSUDAN RELIEF FUND3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +84%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +4%
JUDICIAL WATCH4× · 2018–2021 · $1k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- RTRELIGIOUS TEACHER'S FILLIPPINIone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MSMOUNT STMARY SEMINARY(UPKEEP)one grant, 2020 · $10k
- CMCHURCH MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Catholic Answers Inc
Apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world.
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2
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
The mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
Civil Rights
3
The Foundation of the Catholic
To financially support the spiritual, educational and social needs of our catholic community.
Religion
4
Ave Maria Communications
Ave Maria Communications employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotions and music to demonstrate the good news that Jesus is Lord over all areas of life. Through these means and activities we show that…
Religion
5
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co
A not-for-profit educational organization providing religious information to the public in a bi-weekly newspaper and website.
Religion
6
The Ave Maria Foundation
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7
Catholic Press Association
The mission of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada is to build and strengthen the value, effectiveness, and identity of Catholic media by facilitating the professional development and spiritual growth of our…
Religion
8
Jewish Pro-Life Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Religion
10
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
11
Aquinas Institute Inc
Religion
12
Legal Insurrection Foundation
To educate and inform the public on legal, historical, economic, academic and cultural issues related to the constitution, liberty and world events, through investigative news reporting, outreach, research, audio-visual media, interactive…
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%1/26
the rest of the field
11%
206,163/1,819,539
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,632,700International$21,950Religion$5,000Human Services$3,150Public Benefit$1,250Food & Nutrition$600Public Safety & Disaster$500
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Donors Trust IncVA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GREGORY M& DEBORAH MDESAYE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHURCH MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 203190896 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHURCH MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Gregory M& Deborah Mdesaye?
Find your warmest path to Gregory M& Deborah Mdesaye through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines