Delaware · Private foundation
Messing Family Charitable 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.
- $365k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 78
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Messing Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 68 | $331k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $319k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $305k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $305k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $309k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $315k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $308k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 77 | $323k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synergy School | $518,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Friends of Perry Mansfield | $186,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Wonderbound | $151,947 | 9 | 1% |
| The Morgan Adams Foundation | $145,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company | $135,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin | $128,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Healdsburg Education Foundation | $107,000 | 9 | 15% |
| Alliance Medical Center Inc | $103,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Frequent Flyers Productions In | $81,500 | 9 | 2% |
| St Luke Lutheran Church | $70,615 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 153 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Messing Family Charitable 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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Anthony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Messing Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Messing Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Messing Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Messing Family Charitable Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $364,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Messing Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (24%), Health (11%).
- Who are Messing Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Synergy School ($518k), Friends of Perry Mansfield ($186k), Wonderbound ($152k).
- Does Messing Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Messing Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Messing Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, Sonoma County Vintners Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Messing Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Messing Family Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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