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Mg Mezzanotte Foundation at a glance

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Mg Mezzanotte 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$1.1MReligion$759kRecreation & Sports$715kAnimals$708kArts & Culture$329kEnvironment$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $567k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION$300,000
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JU$202,500
THE SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORP$121,500
WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY$121,500
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$121,500
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$25,000
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$20,000
RICHMOND BALLET$20,000
HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION$20,000
GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC$15,000
MAXWELTON AND LACHLAN FOUNDATION$10,000
RICHMOND SPCA$10,000
BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION$10,000
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FOU$10,000
VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%RAMP ACCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY STUDENTS: $10k → 6%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $5k → 14%VIRGINA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $28k → 9%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $3k → 14%VIRGINA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $20k → 9%VIRGINA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $15k → 9%VIRGINA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $15k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10k → 9%VIRGINA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 43 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
15

Total granted

$6.4M
$835k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+15%

Still filing today

72%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    7× · 2018–2025 · $680k · revenue +87%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $453k · revenue +28%
  • TR
    THE RICHMOND BALLET
    7× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $543k · revenue +16% · 98% of their budget
  • SA
    SHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -96%
  • VH
    VIRGINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
3
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
4
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
5
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
6
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
7
University of Virginia Alumni Association

The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…

Education
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
12
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
22/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION: $755,226 · OtherSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY CLUB: $694,843 · OtherUNIVERSITY CLUBTHE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $600,000 · OtherTHE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $350,434 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $208,452 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $121,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · Other+25 more: $508,900 · Other+25 moreUniversity of Miami: $680,386 · EducationUniversity of MiamiUNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION: $543,417 · EducationUNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATIONTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INC: $378,750 · EducationTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATIO…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $82,500 · Education+8 more: $112,000 · Education+8 moreSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $800,398 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS…SHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL: $200,000 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS…+2 more: $4,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $453,136 · AnimalsWASHINGTON…Washington Humane Society: $227,250 · AnimalsWashington…RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $23,802 · Animals+1 more: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $140,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $97,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $64,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK: $47,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST NEW HANOVER NATURE CONSERVANCY: $28,750 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $108,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRAMP ACCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY STUDENTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesSMYAL Inc: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$3,359,355Education$1,797,053Health$1,004,398Animals$708,188Arts & Culture$292,500Environment$149,750Human Services$135,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $800,398 over 4y, 16% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $680,386 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetUNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION: $543,417 over 1y, 98% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $453,136 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INC: $378,750 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $140,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $108,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $97,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $82,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $64,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK: $47,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHEAST NEW HANOVER NATURE CONSERVANCY: $28,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE VA INC: $27,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $23,802 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MAXWELTON AND LACHLAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $17,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FAISON CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAMP ACCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY STUDENTS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOCHLAND PET LOVERS: $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGoochlandCares: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Washington Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST NEW HANOVER NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SIDE BY SIDE VA INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MAXWELTON AND LACHLAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Dominion Energy Chari…Herndon FoundationWilbur Moreland Haven…Virginia Sargeant Rey…Commonwealth Foundati…Robins FoundationTownebank FoundationCarmax FoundationEstes Foundation Co M…
The Community Foundation IncVA40.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Robins Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mg Mezzanotte Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mg Mezzanotte Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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