California · Private foundation
The Mesdag 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.
- $810k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Mesdag Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $750k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $713k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $743k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $660k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $716k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $643k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music Associates of Aspen Inc | $787,100 | 6 | 3% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $650,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $225,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Monica Catholic Church | $215,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Pacific Council on International Policy | $184,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Theatre Aspen | $165,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $130,100 | 6 | 1% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $105,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| International Medical Corps | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($649k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mesdag Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Paula and William Bernstein Family Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
About The Mesdag Family Foundation
- How much does The Mesdag Family Foundation give?
- The Mesdag Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $810,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Mesdag Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (25%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Mesdag Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Music Associates of Aspen Inc ($787k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($650k), Harvard-Westlake School ($225k).
- Does The Mesdag Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mesdag Family Foundation 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 Mesdag Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Paula and William Bernstein Family Foundation, Aspen Community Foundation.
- Where is The Mesdag Family Foundation based?
- The Mesdag Family Foundation is based in CA.
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