How much did MSA FAMILY FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of MSA FAMILY FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

environmental

2019

gardenconservancyfauquierwildlife

2020

conservancyenvironmental

2021

plantconservancyenvironmentalwildlife

2022

fauquier

2023

san

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $18k
$10k–50k1 grant · $35k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE$35,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,500
ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY$2,000
UCDAVIS$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS$1,000
ORCAS CENTER$1,000
THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST$1,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST$500
ORION SOCIETY$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$443k · 34 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$443k

$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%

+16%

Still filing today

68%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

TC
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE
7× · 2018–2024 · $230k · revenue +329%
MB
MONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT
7× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +97%
PE
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
7× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +161%

Funded once

TG
THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -39%
TG
THE GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -61%
PA
PROCTOR ACADEMY
one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New River Conservancy

To protect the water woodlands and wildlife of the New River Watershed.

Environment

Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild lands and waters.

Environment

Virginia Zoological Society

The virginia zoological society inc (the "society") exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. organized on september 21, 1979, its purpose is to act as an advisory and supportive organization to…

Animals

Virginia Conservation Network

Support conservation in Virginia through public policy research, advocacy, education and capacity building for its member organizations.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

To protect endangered species & preserve their natural habitats.

Animals

Foothills Land Conservancy

Foothills land conservancy is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the lands and environments of the southern appalachian region and promoting the character of the land for the benefit of the general public.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Northern Virginia Conservation Trust

NVCT conserves land that has natural, historical, and cultural value to our communities.

Environment

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock, and chowan river watersheds.

Environment

Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

To protect land through conservation easements and similar land conservation tools and to provide solutions and scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources focusing on the southeastern united states.

Environment

Friends of the Wnc Nature Center Inc

The Friends of the WNC Nature Center is a conservation organization that inspires a passion to know more, care more, and do more for the wildlife of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. We advance the critical work of the WNC Nature Center…

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World Bird Sanctuary

To preserve the earth's biological diversity and to secure the future of threatened bird species in thier natural environments through education, propagation, field studies, and rehabilitation.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Plant Conservation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hospice of the Piedmont Inc. 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/39

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,429

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.

05the grantee network

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

30/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$327,800Animals$82,750Environment$79,450Public Safety & Disaster$14,500Community Improvement$11,000Human Services$5,000Education$2,500

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.

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.

Dun FoundationVA22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dun Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community · Fauquier Health Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Seilheimer Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Skyemar Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Monomoy Fund Inc · BAND Foundation

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521413042 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Msa Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Msa Family Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MSA FAMILY FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Msa Family Fund?

More from the funding graph

MSA FAMILY FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Msa Family Fund?

More from the funding graph