New York · Private foundation
Messler Family 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.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Messler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 25 | $155k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $158k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $170k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $199k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $210k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $195k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $190k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $193k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $178,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Penobscot Bay YMCA | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Historic Charleston Foundation | $72,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Center for Furniture Craftsmanship | $65,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $62,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Maine Farmland Trust | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trekkers Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Sanctuary for Families Inc | $52,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc | $41,000 | 8 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $37,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($557k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Messler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000 · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Trowbridge Foundation · Cara Charitable Foundation Inc · Association Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Arthur K Watson Trust Xxxxx5001
How this is measured
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About Messler Family Foundation
- How much does Messler Family Foundation give?
- Messler Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $160,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Messler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Human Services (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Messler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maine Coast Heritage Trust ($179k), Penobscot Bay YMCA ($75k), Historic Charleston Foundation ($73k).
- Does Messler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Messler Family 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 Messler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Ann H Symington Foundation Xxxxx6000.
- Where is Messler Family Foundation based?
- Messler Family Foundation is based in NY.
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