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The Morris Messing Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$149kHuman Services$42kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$6kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$2kRecreation & Sports$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$451k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Fore Griffin Foundation: $3k → 11%Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund: $20k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%PGA Research: $2k → 11%KARTS FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 12%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $20k → 19%Children Miracle Network: $2k → 8%Family Promise: $2k → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $650 → 7%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%MOLLEN FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund: $5k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%PGA REACH: $2k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 19%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND: $3k → 11%PGA Research: $200 → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%Blessing in Back Association: $5k → 15%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND: $2k → 11%PGA REACH FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%Blessing in Back Association: $5k → 15%PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%A New Leaf: $1k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 19%NEW LEAF INC: $500 → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%THE FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$199k · 9 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$199k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & 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

  • TF
    THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +11%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    4× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +56%
  • FP
    FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • FG
    Fore Griffin Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -15%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +283%
  • PC
    PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

1
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…

2
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.

3
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
4
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
5
Epilepsy Foundation of America

To improve the lives of peoples affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.

Health
6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
11
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Inc

The foundation's mission is to fund research and develop researchers to optimize movement and health of society.

Health
12
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital foundation is a member of st. peter's health…

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.

04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC — $105,000 · HealthTHE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INCSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $30,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC+2 more — $6,000 · HealthBlessing in Back Association — $10,000 · OtherBlessing in Back …BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherBLESSINGS IN A BA…KARTS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 · OtherKARTS FOR KIDS IN…PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $2,000 · OtherPHOENIX CHILDRENS…CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $2,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACL…Individual grant recipient — $1,700 · OtherPGA FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Other+4 more — $950 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationFore Griffin Foundation Inc — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY PROMISE INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $650 · International
Health$171,000Other$33,150Education$6,000Youth Development$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Philanthropy$1,000International$650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC — $105,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFore Griffin Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPGA FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Family Promise Inc2% 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, FY2025

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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