· Private foundation
Messinger Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $15,000 |
| ARTISON WORKS | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION - MIAMI | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK | $10,000 |
| THE MOUNT EDITH WHARTON'S HOME | $6,000 |
| LOWE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| USDAN PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| RECONSTRUCTION RABBINICAL ASSN | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| FROST SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NAACP EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 16 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER3× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +55%- BHBRONX HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
- NRNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UFUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMone grant, 2022 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $60k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 183 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jodi and Paul Tartell Family Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc · The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director · The Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Messinger Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Messinger Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Berkshire Grown Inc: 28% of income from government
- Berkshire Health Systems Inc: 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc: 6% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc: 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
- Bethesda Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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