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The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Civil RightsInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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
FY202314$72k43%
FY20226$24k33%
FY202118$117k17%
FY20209$34k11%
FY201923$134k22%
FY201815$48k7%
FY201725$92kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$326kInternational$84kCivil Rights$55kHuman Services$47kEducation$9kAnimals$2kCrime & Legal$2k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Social Service Agency: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSheltering Arms Children and Family Services Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUermmmc Alumni Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Incorporated: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDorot Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Psychiatric Association Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Horizon Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser

How much does The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser give?
The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser reported 14 grants totaling $72,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (62%), International (16%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($36k), American Heart Association Inc ($36k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($29k).
Does The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser 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 The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser based?
The Louis Messer and Helen Messer Charitable Foundation C/O M Glasser is based in MD.

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 44 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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