New York · Private foundation
Msg Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Msg Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Ojc Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $825,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Msg Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $580k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $218k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $99k | 78% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $154k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vaad Harabbanim L'Inyanei Tzeduka Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Yeshivas Novominsk | $180,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Toldos Yehuda Inc | $168,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gan Yisroel | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ach Tov V Chesed | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Achdus Chaveirim | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cong Sheves Achim | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($335k), not named here.
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: The Ojc Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Msg Foundation Inc
- How much does Msg Foundation Inc give?
- Msg Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $1,405,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Msg Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Religion (26%), Health (0%).
- Who are Msg Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vaad Harabbanim L'Inyanei Tzeduka Inc ($350k), Yeshivas Novominsk ($180k), Congregation Toldos Yehuda Inc ($168k).
- Does Msg Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Msg Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Msg Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Msg Foundation Inc based?
- Msg Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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