How much does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr give?

Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr reported 28 grants totaling $195,051 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (9%).

Who are Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Andrew County Youth Foundation ($90k), Pivotal Point Transitional Housing Inc ($67k), Elmo Betterment Corporation ($35k).

Does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust, Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr, The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc.

Where is Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr based?

Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Private foundation

Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$195k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 31%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $4,900
Largest grant, FY2025: $23,510
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 37; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $3.7M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	27	$175k	22%
FY2024	26	$179k	31%
FY2023	21	$138k	33%
FY2022	25	$205k	40%
FY2021	30	$208k	47%
FY2020	27	$129k	44%
FY2019	37	$171k	57%
FY2018	28	$171k	71%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$280kHuman Services$199kYouth Development$151kPublic Benefit$137kArts & Culture$124kCommunity Improvement$111kRecreation & Sports$97kPhilanthropy$93kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Andrew County Youth Foundation	$89,618	6	n/a
Pivotal Point Transitional Housing Inc	$66,600	8	1%
Elmo Betterment Corporation	$35,000	4	17%
Sisters of Solace	$33,750	4	2%
Second Harvest Community Food Bank	$32,500	3	0%
Lettuce Dream	$27,600	4	12%
Andrew County Museum and Historical Society	$25,000	1	5%
Agriculture Future of America	$21,000	7	0%
Alliance for Community Enrichment	$20,000	1	n/a
Craig Levee Committee	$20,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Andrew County Youth Foundation	$89,618	6	n/a
Pivotal Point Transitional Housing Inc	$66,600	8	1%
Elmo Betterment Corporation	$35,000	4	17%
Sisters of Solace	$33,750	4	2%
Second Harvest Community Food Bank	$32,500	3	0%
Lettuce Dream	$27,600	4	12%
Andrew County Museum and Historical Society	$25,000	1	5%
Agriculture Future of America	$21,000	7	0%
Alliance for Community Enrichment	$20,000	1	n/a
Craig Levee Committee	$20,000	1	n/a
Nodaway County Senior Citizens Senate Inc	$17,000	2	4%
Northwest Foundation Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Friends of the Free Clinic Inc	$15,000	1	12%
Andrew County Council on Aging Inc	$14,400	3	2%
Leadership Northwest Missouri	$13,500	3	n/a
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art	$13,300	2	1%
St Joseph Safety and Health Council	$11,500	2	1%
Andrew County Health and Safety Coalition	$10,800	3	8%
Open Door Community Food Kitchen	$10,000	2	2%
Andrew County Fair Board	$10,000	1	27%
Family Guidance Center for Behavioral Healthcare	$10,000	1	0%
Westboro Wildcat Days	$10,000	1	n/a
Northeast Nodaway Partners in Education Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Heartland Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
Mound City Downtown Restoration and Revitalization Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas and Nw Missouri Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Youth Soccer Association of Greater St Joseph	$10,000	1	5%
Holt County Museum & Research Center	$10,000	1	11%
Interserv Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Bartlett Center	$9,800	3	1%
The Children's Mercy Hospital	$9,000	2	0%
King City Community Theatre Co	$8,300	3	n/a
St Joseph Museums Inc	$7,500	1	1%
United Methodist Church	$7,500	1	n/a
Stanberry Main Street	$5,000	1	6%
St Joseph Symphony Society Inc	$4,973	1	2%
State Theater Arts Council Inc	$4,500	1	n/a
New Beginnings Counseling Groupinc	$4,500	1	2%
Habitat for Humanity Inc	$4,500	1	4%
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc	$4,500	2	0%
Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc	$4,500	1	0%
Spirithorse Therapeutic Riding Center	$4,500	1	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City	$4,311	1	0%
David Waltemath Memorial - King City Endowment Fund	$3,500	1	n/a
St Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce	$3,000	1	0%
Guilford Community Center	$3,000	1	n/a
Nodaway County Historical Society Inc	$3,000	1	n/a
holt county historical society	$2,500	1	n/a
First Christian Church	$2,500	1	n/a
New Nodaway Humane Society	$2,000	1	1%
Stanberry J C Club Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Robidoux Resident Theatre	$2,000	1	n/a
ST Kolbe-Puckett Center for Healing Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Stanberry Area Historical Society Inc	$1,500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($819k), not named here.

Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 34.

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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.

Harold P Dugdale Charitable TrustMN53.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Heartland Regional Medical Center · The Depriest Family Foundation Inc · Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Helen N Poston Charitable Trust · Spratt Leah Charitable Trust

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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About Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr

How much does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr give?: Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr reported 28 grants totaling $195,051 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Andrew County Youth Foundation ($90k), Pivotal Point Transitional Housing Inc ($67k), Elmo Betterment Corporation ($35k).
Does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust, Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr, The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc.
Where is Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr based?: Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr is based in MN.