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· Private foundation
THE MORRIS MESSING FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$5k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
1
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE MORRIS MESSING FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
researchcharitableresearchpain
2019
pain researchcharitable
2020
pain researchcharitable
2021
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2022
assistanceto
2023
assistanceto
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$704k
Total assets
Largest grants
- KARTS FOR KIDS INC$5,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$197k · 10 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
13
Total granted
$197k
$15k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+40%
+72%
Still filing today
40%
31%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TFTHE FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +38%
- IMInjured Marine Semper Fi Fund2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +40%
- TFTHE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FGFore Griffin Foundationone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -49%
- PCPHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $2k
Family Promisegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +320%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Afp Foundation for Philanthropy
Our mission is to advance philanthropic investment and impact in the nonprofit sector.we accomplish this by:- serving as a catalyst for the nonprofit sector to address the sector's greatest issues - acting as a convener between the…
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2
Afe Foundation
The AFE Foundation is the leading expert in education and research and the largest support organization for impacted families and healthcare workers around the world with a mission to reduce mortality attributed to AFE.
Health
3
100 Club of Arizona
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
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Craniofacial Foundation of Arizona
Dedicated to providing financial and emotional support to craniofacial patients and their families.
Health
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Arizona Family Health Partnership
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
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6
American Academy of Neurology
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the leading voice in brain health. As the world's largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals with more than 40,000 members, the AAN offers access to continuing education,…
Community Improvement
7
Arizona Foundation for Women
To advance the status of arizona's women through research, advocacy and philanthropy to ensure their safety, health and economic independence. this includes performing the functions of, or carrying out the purposes of the arizona community…
Human Services
8
Foundation for Physical Therapy
Funding physical therapy research through grants, scholarships and fellowships.
Health
9
Providence Facey Medical Foundation
See schedule o.as expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
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10
Arizona Golf Foundation
The mission of the Arizona Golf Foundation is to perform research on the economic benefits of golf in Arizona, including turf research to improve and benefit the environment, promote junior golf, and assist in the development of low cost…
Recreation & Sports
11
Patient Access Network Foundation
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
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Foundation for Financial
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Fore Griffin 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.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$125,300Health$85,500Youth Development$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Philanthropy$1,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund ↗
- Who funds THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fore Griffin Foundation ↗
- Who funds Family Promise ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A New Leaf ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE MORRIS MESSING FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Fore Griffin Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~43 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 833080956 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Fore Griffin Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 43 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Morris Messing Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Morris Messing Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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