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Mesnikoff Foundation at a glance

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Mesnikoff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$256kInternational$243kHealth$111kAnimals$84kHuman Services$21kEnvironment$19kCivil Rights$14kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$913k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAZON$15,000
CAPITOL AREA FOOD BANK$15,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOODBANK$15,000
OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH$13,000
HEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY$12,000
OXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS)$10,000
EAST BAY SPCA$6,000
HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE$6,000
GOOD NEIGHBORS CAPITAL HILL$6,000
KIDS OF KATMANDU$4,000
ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES$4,000
CAPITOL HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,500
DEMOCRACY FORWARD$3,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL$3,000
KIDS CONNECTION HAITI$3,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS): $10k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 8%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $13k → 14%ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES: $4k → 17%KIDS OF KATMANDU: $4k → 20%HEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY: $12k → 8%OXFAM USA - DESIGNATED SYRIAN AND ROHINGYA REFUGEE RELIEF: $10k → 16%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $13k → 14%KIDS OF KATMANDU: $4k → 20%GOOD NEIGHBORS CAPITAL HILL: $6k → 14%HEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY: $10k → 8%OXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS): $10k → 16%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $13k → 14%KIDS OF KATMANDU: $4k → 20%LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION: $5k → 14%HEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY: $8k → 8%OXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS): $10k → 16%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $13k → 14%KIDS OF KATMANDU: $4k → 20%GOOD NEIGHBORS CAPITAL HILL: $5k → 14%HEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY: $8k → 8%OXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS): $10k → 16%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $13k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS CAPITAL HILL: $5k → 14%OXFAM USA - DESIGNATED SYRIAN AND ROHINGYA REFUGEE RELIEF: $7k → 16%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $11k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS CAPITAL HILL: $5k → 14%OXFAM USA - DESIGNATED SYRIAN AND ROHINGYA REFUGEE RELIEF: $7k → 16%OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $11k → 14%OXFAM USA - DESIGNATED SYRIAN AND ROHINGYA REFUGEE RELIEF: $7k → 16%HEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY: $8k → 17%EAST BAY SPCA: $6k → 10%EAST BAY SPCA: $5k → 10%EAST BAY SPCA: $5k → 10%EAST BAY SPCA: $5k → 10%EAST BAY SPCA: $5k → 10%MULTI FAITH ALLIANCE: $15k → 17%JDC - MULTI FAITH ALLIANCE FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES IN JORDAN: $8k → 17%JDC - MULTI FAITH ALLIANCE FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES IN JORDAN: $8k → 17%CAPITOL AREA FOOD BANK: $15k → 14%CAPITOL AREA FOOD BANK: $15k → 14%CAPITOL AREA FOOD BANK: $15k → 14%CAPITOL AREA FOOD BANK: $15k → 14%CAPITOL AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $6k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $5k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$743k · 23 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$743k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
0%

Still filing today

57%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther
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

  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +87%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +80%
  • MA
    MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • MA
    MULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
2
Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals
3
Animal Agriculture Alliance

The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…

Food & Nutrition
4
Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals
5
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
Shelter Animals Count

To create, share and steward the national database of sheltered animals that provides facts and enables insights to save lives.

Animals
8
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
9
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
10
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…

Animals
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward; the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Food Bank Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $101,500 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCH: $87,000 · OtherOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION - HARVARD RESEARCHMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $72,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to HungerJDC - MULTI FAITH ALLIANCE FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES IN JORDAN: $52,000 · OtherJDC - MULTI FAITH ALLIANCE FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES IN JORDANHEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherHEBREW IMMIGRATION AID SOCIETYOXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS): $40,000 · OtherOXFAM AMERICA (YEMEN AND REFUGEE CRISIS)STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $22,000 · OtherGOOD NEIGHBORS CAPITOL HILL: $21,000 · Other+11 more: $35,500 · Other+11 moreOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $31,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERIC…KIDS OF KATHMANDU INC: $24,500 · InternationalKIDS OF KATH…THE KIDS CONNECTION HAITI INC: $18,000 · InternationalTHE KIDS CON…MULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · InternationalMULTIFAITH A…+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalEAST BAY SPCA: $38,000 · AnimalsEAST BAY SP…WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $28,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON …RURAL DOG RESCUE: $14,600 · AnimalsRURAL DOG R…FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES: $3,000 · AnimalsCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $82,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL ARE…Lake Merritt Institute: $17,000 · EnvironmentDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,000 · Civil RightsCapitol Hill Community Foundation: $13,000 · PhilanthropyAdvocates for Community Alternatives Inc: $11,000 · Social Science
Other$481,000International$90,500Animals$83,600Food & Nutrition$82,000Environment$17,000Civil Rights$14,000Philanthropy$13,000Social Science$11,000

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 budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $101,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $82,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $72,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY SPCA: $38,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS OF KATHMANDU INC: $24,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE KIDS CONNECTION HAITI INC: $18,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetLake Merritt Institute: $17,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL DOG RESCUE: $14,600 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCapitol Hill Community Foundation: $13,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAdvocates for Community Alternatives Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS OF KATHMANDU INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KIDS CONNECTION HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds Lake Merritt Institute ↗
  • Who funds MULTIFAITH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RURAL DOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Capitol Hill Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home