Michigan · Private foundation
Mesara Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $484k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 47
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Mesara Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $476k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $449k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $381k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $417k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $381k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $330k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Michigan University Foundation | $246,410 | 6 | 0% |
| Building Tomorrow Inc | $153,000 | 5 | 1% |
| SheJumps | $123,525 | 6 | 7% |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $110,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wild Sheep Foundation | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc | $64,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc | $64,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($336k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mesara Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Molitor Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation
How this is measured
About Mesara Family Foundation
- How much does Mesara Family Foundation give?
- Mesara Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $484,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 47 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Mesara Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Environment (12%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Mesara Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Western Michigan University Foundation ($246k), Building Tomorrow Inc ($153k), SheJumps ($124k).
- Does Mesara Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mesara Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mesara Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation, United Way of South Central Michigan.
- Where is Mesara Family Foundation based?
- Mesara Family Foundation is based in MI.
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