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Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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57% of Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Arizona Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’18
2
’19
2
’20
1
’21
1
’22
2
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$9k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$7500%
FY20233$1k33%
FY20221$500100%
FY20212$50050%
FY20202$75050%
FY20192$80050%
FY20181$500100%
FY20171$100n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$750Food & Nutrition$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($750), not named here.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina

How much does Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina give?
Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina reported 3 grants totaling $1,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (52%), Philanthropy (27%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Joseph's Foundation ($2k), Honorhealth Foundation ($2k), Forest Highlands Foundation ($600).
Does Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina based?
Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation Inc C/O Natale a Messina is based in AZ.

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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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