· Private foundation
Meshnick Charitable Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Free to Choose Fund | $14,000 |
| Friends of Yah Sarah | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Barbershop Books | $5,000 |
| Ozark Food Harvest | $3,500 |
| Hope of Rock Hill | $3,500 |
| 360 SPORTS ACADEMY | $3,500 |
| American Indian College Fund | $3,000 |
| K9s for Warriors | $3,000 |
| Christian Appalachian Project | $3,000 |
| You Gotta Believe | $3,000 |
| Happy Trails for Kids | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +41% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- TFTHE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE PROJECT2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +41%
- YGYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC3× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +42%
- CACHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CCCHILDREN'S CASE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION INC D/B/A FAMILIES FIRST OF PB COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +22%
- DADREAMCHASERS ACADEMY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%
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.
Familylinks is one of the pittsburgh area's largest and most comprehensive human service providers. serving the most vulnerable members of our community, familylinks provides services in mental health, substance use, service coordination,…
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Acds is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities and their families. we provide a continuum of year round…
Brian's House specializes in the care and treatment of people with disabilities. Brian's House provides a broad range of human services to people with special needs and challenges. The primary goal is to maximize each individual's…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Job path supports people with autism and other developmental disabilities as they make choices about their lives and play valued roles in their communities. job path encourages people to explore what they want out of life and to chart…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Trails for Kids and the most unlike its peers is Hope 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 27 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.
44 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. 44 of the 82 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 THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CASE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION INC D/B/A FAMILIES FIRST OF PB COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DREAMCHASERS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds GODS LITTLE ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Can Do Multiple Sclerosis ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Td Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Meshnick Charitable Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Vita Nova Inc — 42% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.
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