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MA Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Religion$229kInternational$147kEducation$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
$7,551
Median grant
3
States reached
$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Joseph the Carpenter$35,500
St Augustine and St Monica Coptic O$27,500
Light for Orphans$20,400
St Mary Coptic Orthodox Church$7,551
Queen Saint Mary Prince Tadros Co$2,500
Bishop Bessada the Martyr$2,000
PayPal School World$1,050
Direct Relief$500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%PayPal School World: $1k → 8%Direct Relief: $500 → 14%LIGHT FOR ORPHANS: $28k → 6%ST DEMIANA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $2k → 14%SAINT JAMES CHURCH: $250 → 5%ST MARY & ST STEPHEN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $27k → 8%LIGHT FOR ORPHANS: $23k → 6%St Augustine and St Monica Coptic O: $28k → 5%ST MARY & ST STEPHEN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $17k → 8%LIGHT FOR ORPHANS: $22k → 6%St Augustine and St Monica Coptic O: $19k → 5%ST MARY & ST STEPHEN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $16k → 8%LIGHT FOR ORPHANS: $21k → 6%ST AUGUSTINE & ST MONICA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $12k → 5%St Mary Coptic Orthodox Church: $10k → 8%Light for Orphans: $20k → 6%ST AUGUSTINE & ST MONICA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $6k → 5%St Mary Coptic Orthodox Church: $8k → 8%Light for Orphans: $20k → 6%SAINT MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5k → 8%LIGHT FOR ORPHANS: $10k → 6%SAINT MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5k → 8%SAINT MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5k → 8%Bishop Bessada the Martyr: $3k → 8%BISHOP BESSADA THE MARTYR: $3k → 8%BISHOP BESSADA THE MARTYR: $2k → 8%SAINT MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $2k → 8%Bishop Bessada the Martyr: $2k → 8%BISHOP BESSADA THE MARTYR: $1k → 8%Queen Saint Mary Prince Tadros Co: $3k → 8%St Joseph the Carpenter: $36k → 8%St Joseph the Carpenter: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$371k · 8 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$371k
$2k

Still filing today

13%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

  • LF
    LIGHT FOR ORPHANS CORP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $147k · revenue +20%
  • SM
    ST MARY & ST STEPHEN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k
  • SJ
    St Joseph the Carpenter
    2× · 2023–2024 · $56k

Funded once

  • SD
    ST DEMIANA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • SJ
    SAINT JAMES CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $250

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MARY & ST STEPHEN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH — $59,800 · OtherST MARY & ST STEPHEN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCHSt Joseph the Carpenter — $55,500 · OtherSt Joseph the CarpenterSt Augustine and St Monica Coptic O — $46,500 · OtherSt Augustine and St Monica Coptic OST AUGUSTINE & ST MONICA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH — $18,120 · OtherST AUGUSTINE & ST MONICA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCHSt Mary Coptic Orthodox Church — $17,221 · OtherSt Mary Coptic Orthodox ChurchSAINT MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH — $17,000 · OtherSAINT MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCHBishop Bessada the Martyr — $10,000 · Other+4 more — $5,800 · OtherLIGHT FOR ORPHANS CORP — $146,600 · InternationalLIGHT FOR ORPHANS CORP+1 more — $500 · International
Other$229,941International$147,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIGHT FOR ORPHANS CORP — $146,600 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds LIGHT FOR ORPHANS CORP
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization MA Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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