New Jersey · Private foundation
Messner Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $742k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Messner Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $542k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $380k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $462k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $458k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $450k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $383k | 2% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $476k | 7% |
| FY2017 | 43 | $421k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Rescue Mission Inc | $500,730 | 8 | 2% |
| Covenant House New Jersey Inc | $270,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Sunshine Foundation | $121,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Friends of Jean Webster Inc | $105,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Deborah Hospital Foundation | $88,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Corbin City Baptist Church | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| South Jersey Christian Academy | $50,050 | 2 | 9% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Messner Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: Oceanfirst Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Messner Foundation Inc
- How much does Messner Foundation Inc give?
- Messner Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $742,471 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Messner Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Education (18%).
- Who are Messner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Atlantic City Rescue Mission Inc ($501k), Covenant House New Jersey Inc ($270k), Sunshine Foundation ($121k).
- Does Messner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Messner Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Messner Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oceanfirst Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is Messner Foundation Inc based?
- Messner Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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