· Private foundation
Mesara Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WMU FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHE JUMPS | $50,000 |
| BUILDING TOMORROW | $40,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION CHAPTER 7 | $25,000 |
| FIRST DAY SHOE FUND | $15,000 |
| PYXERA GLOBAL INC | $15,000 |
| SEASON OF JUSTICE | $12,000 |
| SPECIAL DAYS CAMPS | $12,000 |
| CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN COLORADO | $10,000 |
| HEARTS AND HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $10,000 |
| SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COUNTY NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GOD'S SPECIAL PEOPLES CAMP | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $246k · revenue +149%
- BTBUILDING TOMORROW INC5× · 2019–2025 · $153k · revenue +158%
SheJumps6× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- HHHELPING HANDS OF PAULDING COUNTY Igraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +74%
- DCDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +978%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
To protect endangered species.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cetera Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
77 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 102 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds SheJumps ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds Special Days Camps ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds PYXERA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Catamount Institute ↗
- Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALAMA KAUAI ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW LAKES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CETERA INC ↗
- Who funds Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc ↗
- Who funds REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Musk Ox Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds SEASON OF JUSTICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF PAULDING COUNTY I ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCH REPUBLIC MARINE ARMY ↗
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.
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
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 organization Mesara 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Florida Trail Association Inc — 100% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.