· Private foundation
Messner Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Pennsylvania | $200,000 |
| St Jude's Children's Hospital | $200,000 |
| Covenant House New Jersey Inc | $45,000 |
| St Christopher Hospital for Children | $32,471 |
| Atlantic City Rescue Mission | $25,000 |
| Friends of Jean Webster | $25,000 |
| Sunshine Foundation | $20,000 |
| St Maximillian Kolbe Parish | $20,000 |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey | $20,000 |
| Samritans Purse | $15,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Shore Memorial Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| Our Lady of Angels Parish | $10,000 |
| Shriner's Hospitals for Children | $10,000 |
| Corbin City Baptist Church | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $820k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $501k · revenue +107%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +37%
- SFSUNSHINE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- GTGreater Tuchahoe Area Merchants Associationone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CCCalvary Chapel of Ocean Cityone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Samaritan is the preeminent provider of hospice and palliative (comfort) care, grief support, education, advocacy, and other life-enhancing services. we provide unparalleled services with respect, dignity and compassion for all people…
The mission of princeton healthcare system is to provide exceptional, compassionate care to enhance the health and wellness of our patients, their families, and our community. princeton healthcare system provides inpatient and outpatient…
To provide the highest quality heart, lung and vascular care in a collaborative and welcoming environment, while ensuring access for all.
My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To be the preeminent provider of specialized healthcare services for infants, children and young adults. the organization provides medically necessary pediatric healthcare services to all children in a non-discriminatory manner regardless…
Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifeguard Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Jean Webster Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds South Jersey Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds UPPER TOWNSHIP RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN BEAT THE STREET INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ATLANTI ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Sierra House Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Messner Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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