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The Morris Messing Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Morris Messing 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$149kHuman Services$42kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$6kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$2kRecreation & Sports$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCAITION$15,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION$10,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCAITION: $15k → 9%Family Promise: $2k → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $650 → 7%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%MOLLEN FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund: $5k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%PGA REACH: $2k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND: $5k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%PGA Research: $200 → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%Blessing in Back Association: $5k → 15%PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND: $3k → 11%PGA REACH FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND: $2k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATIOI: $15k → 19%Blessing in Back Association: $5k → 15%A New Leaf: $1k → 11%THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION: $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
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

NY
NJ
CA
UT
KY
VA
AZ
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$234k · 9 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$234k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
45%

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
HealthInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TF
    THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +11%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    5× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +56%
  • FP
    FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • KF
    KARTS FOR KIDS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • FG
    Fore Griffin Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -15%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +283%
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
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
2
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
3
Epilepsy Foundation of America

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

Health
4
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
5
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
6
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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7
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
8
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
9
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
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
12
Cerebral Palsy Foundation Inc

The foundation develops and spearheads initiatives designed to change lives today for people with cerebral palsy through research, innovation, and collaboration.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf; 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 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. 12 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 · HealthTHE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INCSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $35,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $6,000 · HealthBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherBLESSINGS IN A BACK…Blessing in Back Association: $10,000 · OtherBlessing in Back As…KARTS FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 · OtherKARTS FOR KIDS INCPHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,700 · OtherPGA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Other+4 more: $950 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 · 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$191,000Other$43,150Education$11,000Youth Development$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Philanthropy$1,000International$650

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 budgetTHE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Morris Messing Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morris Messing Foundation Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% 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 21 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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