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Massiah Foundation Inc at a glance

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Massiah Foundation Inc

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$12MHealth$206kInternational$72kScience & Tech$50kArts & Culture$18kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $369k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$2,001,250
LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL$136,625
CHOC FOUNDATION$132,590
MIT$100,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$40,000
THE CARTER CENTER INC$39,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 10 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$12M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+100%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $695k · revenue +51%
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2024 · $183k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +300%
  • NB
    NEWPORT BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +100%
  • FF
    FARHANG FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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3
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
4
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
8
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
9
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
10
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California Irvine Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Honarmand Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $4,001,250 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCPSU FOUNDATION: $3,305,000 · OtherPSU FOUNDATIONMIT: $2,200,000 · OtherMITLAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL: $862,500 · OtherLAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOLST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $450,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $375,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $695,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $24,660 · EducationCHOC FOUNDATION: $182,590 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $23,500 · HealthTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $71,900 · InternationalFARHANG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHonarmand Foundation: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$11,203,750Education$769,660Health$206,090International$71,900Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $4,001,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $695,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $182,590 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $71,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $9,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHonarmand Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Massiah Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massiah Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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