· Private foundation
The Cayre & Alexis Michas Foundation Corp
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| US SAILING ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MILL REEF FUND | $1,000 |
| STREET SQUASH | $1,000 |
| KENYA EDUCATION FUND | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISTREETSQUASH INC2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +99%
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +9%- MRMILL REEF FUND2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FUND FOR ATHENS COLLEGE IN GREECEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +531% · 32% of their budget
- SASHAKE A LEG MIAMI INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +8%
- COChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +71%
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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Support of miami university
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To provide scholorships and contributions in support of massachusetts maritime academy.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN FUND FOR ATHENS COLLEGE IN GREECE ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILL REEF FUND ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cayre & Alexis Michas Foundation Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cayre & Alexis Michas Foundation Corp. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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