· Private foundation
Msa Family Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k9 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $5,500 |
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS | $1,000 |
| THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $1,000 |
| ORCAS CENTER | $1,000 |
| UCDAVIS | $1,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST | $500 |
| ORION SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TCTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $230k · revenue +224%
- MBMONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT7× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +484%
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -3%
- GMGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -61%
- PAPROCTOR ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The pinchot institute for conservation is a public benefit non-profit corporation. we are passionate about protecting nature and creating breakthroughs that result in more sustaianable ecosystems and economies. the institute is…
To advance the preservation of the amazon rainforest and conservation research and to disseminate knowledge regarding the impact of human development and climate change on the diversity of the ecosystem, wildlife, and plant life of the…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Plant Conservation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Fauquier County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 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 THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds VERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
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: Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Seilheimer Foundation · Wise Foundation · Skyemar Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fhi Services · The Jesse and Rose Loeb 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 Msa Family Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% 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.