How much did MESARA FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of MESARA FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

scholarship

2020

studenthealthwildlifereliefcareoceanmarine

2021

portagemarinekalamazooblindsharescholarship

2022

marinemuskcarefoodenvironmental

2023

marinekalamazooblindfood bankcamp

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $135k
$10k–50k19 grants · $269k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

WMU FOUNDATION$50,000
BUILDING TOMORROW$38,000
SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION CHAPTER 7$25,000
FLORIDA TRAIL ASSOCIATION$22,880
SHE JUMPS$20,000
HEARTS AND HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING$16,720
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$14,000
SPECIAL DAYS CAMPS$12,000
CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE$10,000
FIRST DAY SHOE FUND$10,000
GOD'S SPECIAL PEOPLES CAMP$10,000
WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION$10,000
PYXERA GLOBAL INC$10,000
THE CHILL FOUNDATION$10,000
SEASONS OF JUSTICE$10,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 46 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+172%

Still filing today

67%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

BT
BUILDING TOMORROW
4× · 2019–2024 · $113k · revenue +75%
SO
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2023 · $105k · revenue +265%
LD
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +29%

Funded once

SM
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN CLASSIS
one grant, 2020 · $30k
HH
HELPING HANDS OF PAULDING COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +219%
DC
DISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13878%

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

04Your field

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.

Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International

Rewild

Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving earth where all life flourishes.

Animals

Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio

To restore and conserve fish, wildlife, and habitat throughout the state and teach members and the public to do the same.

Environment

Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions.

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

OneReef Worldwide Stewardship

Partner with island communities to combine traditional stewardship and modern resources to protect coral reefs.

Animals

Regenerative Earth

Preserving biological diversity and indigenous wisdom in keystone ecosystems globally, as well as enabling conditions where humans and the environment thrive within.

Environment

See Turtles

SEE Turtles connects people with sea turtles in meaningful, personal, and memorable ways. Our organization helps the sea turtle community connect, grow, and thrive by suppoting community-based conservation efforts. Our program provides…

Animals

Florida Wildlife Federation

To conserve Florida's wildlife, habitat, and natural resources through education, advocacy and science-based stewardship.

Animals

Wild Orca

Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.

Animals

Sunflower Star Laboratory

Sunflower Star Labotory leads research and conservation to recover the sunflower star, building kelp forest resilience within our communities.

Environment

Dolphin Research Center Inc

Relationship between marine mammals and humans.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Billfish Foundation Inc 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/62

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,503

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.

05the grantee network

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/60

Grantees still filing

53/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,209,655Human Services$193,100Animals$190,000Education$164,500International$148,000Recreation & Sports$108,660Environment$72,500

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.

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.

Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Miller-Davis Foundation · Hammond 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN STATE PARK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 030403996 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN STATE PARK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mesara Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mesara Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MESARA FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mesara Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MESARA FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mesara Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph