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The Menges Family Foundation at a glance

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The Menges Family Foundation

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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$308kArts & Culture$183kPublic Benefit$140kHealth$115kReligion$59kScience & Tech$37kHuman Services$13kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$9,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKE'S CHURCH$11,000
PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY$10,000
TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN$9,500
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$7,500
HAMPTONS WHODUNIT$7,500
THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HAMPTONS WHODUNIT: $8k → 7%HAMPTONS WHODUNIT: $5k → 7%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

MI
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
AZ
SC
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$710k · 14 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$710k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +56%
  • TI
    TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN
    3× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +21%
  • DANA HALL SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CS
    Cox Science Center and Aquarium Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +90%
  • IN
    I'm Not Done Yet Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +49%
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
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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2
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St George's School; the most unlike its peers is I'm Not Done Yet Foundation Inc. 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 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES: $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEESHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYST LUKE'S CHURCH: $57,000 · OtherST LUKE'S CHURCHSOUTH FLORIDA SCIENCE CENTER: $27,000 · OtherSOUTH FLORIDA SCIENCE CENTERUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $16,000 · Other+10 more: $38,800 · Other+10 moreALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $190,000 · EducationALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR …PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $40,000 · EducationPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELA…DANA HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $6,396 · EducationNew York Historical Society: $177,500 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Soci…Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,400 · Arts & CultureTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $18,500 · Crime & LegalHAMPTONSWHODUNIT INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyI'm Not Done Yet Foundation Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$378,800Education$261,396Arts & Culture$189,900Crime & Legal$18,500Human Services$12,500Philanthropy$10,500Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $190,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $177,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTONSWHODUNIT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $5,396 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetI'm Not Done Yet Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Menges Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Menges Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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