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The Msj 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.

$259k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$269kHealth$254kRecreation & Sports$200kHuman Services$196kHousing & Shelter$92kArts & Culture$79kAnimals$49kInternational$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAYETTEVILLE FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION$75,000
FLEUR DE LIS CAMP$50,000
DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION$16,376
PROJECT HOME$10,498
RESCUE MISSION$10,482
FRANCIS HOUSE$10,450
HEALTHWELL FOUNDATION$10,330
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,236
BUNKERS IN BAGHDAD$10,000
PHILABUNDANCE$10,000
CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS$7,420
WANDERERS' REST HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC$7,210
THE MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION$7,000
PREVENTION NETWORK$7,000
DAVID'S REFUGE$7,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $10k → 11%RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $10k → 14%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $10k → 11%RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $7k → 11%RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $6k → 11%RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 14%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $5k → 11%RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $20k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 14%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 22 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$1.1M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+1%

Still filing today

68%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • FD
    FLEUR DE LIS CAMP INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • TF
    THE FAYETTEVILLE FIREMENS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +33% · 25% of their budget
  • FH
    FRANCIS HOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • VH
    VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -47%
  • SB
    ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +12%
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
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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2
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Micah House Corporation

Providing shelter, food, clothing & support for homeless families

Housing & Shelter
4
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
5
Sarah's Guest House Inc

This healthcare hospitality house provides a "home away from home" accomodations to patients and families of patients who are receiving medical care in central new york.

Human Services
6
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
7
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun

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8
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
9
Friendship Home Inc

The mission of friendship home is to enrich the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families by providing quality respite and support services in a safe and caring environment.

Human Services
10
Partnership Housing Inc

Partnership housing, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
11
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
12
Welcome House Inc

Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Waterwheel Foundation. 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

31 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. 31 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC JR FOUNDATION: $112,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC JR FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $78,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMINOA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $68,250 · OtherMINOA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTRIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $42,000 · OtherRIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONPREVENTION NETWORK: $39,500 · OtherPREVENTION NETWORKFRIENDS OF FLEUR DE LIS: $37,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FLEUR DE LISCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25,000 · OtherVERA HOUSE INC: $20,500 · OtherTHE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $20,476 · OtherTHE MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION: $36,600 · OtherTHE MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION+20 more: $133,110 · Other+20 moreFLEUR DE LIS CAMP INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsFLEUR DE LIS CAMP…FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $65,450 · Human ServicesFRANCIS HOUSE IN…THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $40,982 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MISSI…CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $37,920 · Human ServicesCLEAR PATH FOR V…VERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVERA HOUSE FOUND…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR …PROJECT HOME: $10,498 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMETHE FAYETTEVILLE FIREMENS ASSOCIATION INC: $185,250 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FAYETTEVILL…BUNKERS IN BAGHDAD: $40,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,236 · InternationalINDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $20,100 · HealthHealthwell Foundation: $10,330 · HealthDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $7,000 · HealthActionAids Inc: $5,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthWANDERERS' REST HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $37,710 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $5,500 · Animals
Other$612,536Recreation & Sports$200,000Human Services$189,850Public Safety & Disaster$185,250International$50,736Health$47,430Animals$43,210

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLEUR DE LIS CAMP INC: $200,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE FAYETTEVILLE FIREMENS ASSOCIATION INC: $185,250 over 6y, 25% of budgetFRANCIS HOUSE INC: $65,450 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $40,982 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUNKERS IN BAGHDAD: $40,500 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $37,920 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWANDERERS' REST HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $37,710 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION: $36,600 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetVERA HOUSE INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $20,476 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHosts for Hospitals: $20,250 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $20,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFOSTERING GREATNESS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $10,498 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActionAids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Central New York Comm…Amica Companies Found…Equitable Foundation …Herbert S and Eleanor…The Dorothy and Marsh…The John Ben Snow Fou…Allyn Family Foundati…Kinney Drugs Foundati…Mother Cabrini Health…Price Chopper's Golub…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Central New York Community Foundation IncNY19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Msj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Msj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Msj Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Msj Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 47 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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