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The Menezes Foundation Inc

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.

$161k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of The Menezes Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Menezes Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $161k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
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’19
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’20
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’21
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’22
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’23
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’24
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’25

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

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MInternational$423kHuman Services$377kReligion$85kRecreation & Sports$62kPhilanthropy$59kScience & Tech$30kArts & Culture$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN INDIAN FUND$50,000
EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS$30,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY$26,000
IIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FDN$15,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK (CARDINAL'S APPEAL)$15,000
EMERGE GLOBAL$10,000
MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT$10,000
ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION$1,500
INFINITE CHANCE$1,000
STUDENT ADOVCACY$1,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE$500
LARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY$250
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$250
THIRTEEN$250
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.0M → 8%MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: $130k → 16%REIF SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $125k → 11%EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS: $30k → 22%IIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FDN: $15k → 8%EMERGE GLOBAL: $10k → 10%STUDENT ADOVCACY: $3k → 9%PROJECT PHIL: $4k → 13%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $280k → 17%PRATHAM USA: $5k → 16%FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN: $8k → 15%INFINITE CHANCE: $1k → 6%CTR - CALCUTTA TILJALLAH RELIEF: $1k → 8%SPRING LANKE RANCH INC: $5k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 8%MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: $62k → 16%EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS: $30k → 22%IIT BOMBAY HERITAGE FDN: $15k → 8%STUDENT ADOVCACY: $1k → 9%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $217k → 17%MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: $10k → 16%EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS: $30k → 22%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $184k → 17%MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: $10k → 16%EISENHOWER FELLOWSHIPS: $30k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $5k → 17%MATER DEI - ED WALSH FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $229k → 17%MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: $10k → 16%LARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY: $51k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $59k → 17%ST AUGUSTINE CHURCH IN LARCHMONT: $21k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $57k → 17%ST AUGUSTINE CHURCH IN LARCHMONT: $7k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $40k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $26k → 17%RENEW & REBUILD ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $20k → 17%UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 9%ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK (CARDINAL'S APPEAL): $15k → 17%ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK (CARDINAL'S APPEAL): $15k → 17%ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK (CARDINAL'S APPEAL): $15k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS: $25k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%AIF - AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $120k → 17%AMERICAN INDIAN FUND: $50k → 17%AIF - AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%AIF - AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $47k → 17%AMERICAN INDIAN FUND: $45k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$1.0M
$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+9%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterEducationEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $217k · revenue +68%
  • IB
    IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +193%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • RS
    REIF SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • AI
    American India Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • AS
    Asia Society
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
8
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc

Phipps' mission is to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research, and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.

Environment
9
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
10
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
12
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Project Phil Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,247,300 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology+1 more: $6,500 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY: $411,050 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF N…REIF SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $125,000 · OtherREIF SCHOLARSHIP FUNDAMERICAN INDIAN FUND: $94,800 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN FUNDLARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY: $52,250 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK (CARDINAL'S APPEAL): $45,000 · OtherAmerican India Foundation: $40,000 · OtherAsia Society: $35,000 · Other+20 more: $197,970 · Other+20 moreTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $217,240 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE AMERI…Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $120,000 · InternationalIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation: $30,000 · InternationalEmerge Global: $10,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,430 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,250 · Arts & CulturePRATHAM USA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT PHIL CORP: $3,600 · PhilanthropyFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $7,500 · Environment
Education$1,253,800Other$1,001,070Public Safety & Disaster$217,240International$161,000Arts & Culture$26,680Philanthropy$8,600Environment$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,247,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $217,240 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY: $52,250 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,430 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmerge Global: $10,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPRING LAKE RANCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT PHIL CORP: $3,600 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInfinite Chance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds LARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Emerge Global ↗
  • Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds SPRING LAKE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT PHIL CORP ↗
  • Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds GRACE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Infinite Chance ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Menezes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Menezes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 39 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home