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Thomas and Cindy Massie Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$879k
Granted FY2020
17
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$350k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

88% of Thomas and Cindy Massie Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Thomas and Cindy Massie Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $879k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
17
5
20
3
21
5
22
4
23
4
24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$3.5MArts & Culture$304kReligion$277kEducation$207kHuman Services$150kHealth$60kYouth Development$40kScience & Tech$20kOther$0
02FY2020 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $420k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$4,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alaska Community Fund (DAF)$350,000
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding trust Inc$220,000
Bering Strait FDN$150,000
KICY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$43,351
Unalakleet Covenant Church$22,358
University of Alaska Fairbanks$12,000
The Leap FDN$10,000
University of Alaska Anchorage$4,500
Univeristy of Hawaii at Hilo$4,500
University of Oregon$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,289
Amundsen Educational Center$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Boston Conservatory at Berklee$1,500
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Excel Alaska Inc: $3k → 10%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

AK
WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
HI
FL

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 21 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 11 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
9

Total granted

$1.8M
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-96%
+27%

Still filing today

0%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AC
    Alaska Community Fund
    2× · 2020–2021 · $840k
  • NV
    Native Village of Unakleet
    2× · 2021–2023 · $301k
  • BS
    BERING STRAITS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue -96% · 99% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • SF
    SMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports
3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Ilisagvik College

Ilisagvik college provides quality post-secondary academic, vocational and technical education in a learning environment that perpetuates and strengthens iupiat culture, language, values and traditions. it is dedicated to providing…

Education
5
Alaska Village Electric Cooperative Inc

To provide electric power to 59 remote alaskan villages.

6
No on 2

Oppose 2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2, which would have repealed nonpartisan open primaries and ranked choice voting.

7
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
8
Alaska Joint Electrical Apprenticeship & Training Trust

Provide training in the electrical industry for electrical apprentices and journeymen.

Employment
9
Alaska Power Association

Promote and encourage cooperation among Alaska electric utilities and their customers while promoting the operation of electrical plants adequate for the needs of Alaskan consumers.

10
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
11
Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council

The alaska nannut co-management council (ancc) was established to represent the collective alaska native voice in polar bear co-management. ancc is a tribally authorized organization with membership consisting of the 15 tribes in alaska…

Animals
12
Alaska Museum of Science and Nature

The alaska museum of science and nature is dedicated to the education and exploration of our scientific and natural world.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alaska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ala Kahakai Trail Association. 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

13 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. 13 of the 53 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $2,522,000 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INCThe Alaska Community Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropyAlaska Community Fund (DAF) — $840,000 · OtherAlaska Community Fund (DAF)Native Village of Unakleet — $301,000 · OtherNative Village of UnakleetKICY — $100,000 · OtherKICYUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS — $67,500 · Other+38 more — $527,576 · Other+38 moreBERING STRAITS FOUNDATION — $245,000 · Religion+1 more — $3,000 · ReligionTHE LEAP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationAlaska Pacific University — $4,500 · EducationAMUNDSEN EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $1,500 · EducationNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationALA KAHAKAI TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentALASKA STATE FAIR INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsEXCEL ALASKA INC — $3,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$2,622,000Other$1,836,076Religion$248,000Education$17,500Environment$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Human Services$3,000

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 budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $2,522,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBERING STRAITS FOUNDATION — $245,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOME COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LEAP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALA KAHAKAI TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetALASKA STATE FAIR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Pacific University — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXCEL ALASKA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNALAKLEET VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMUNDSEN EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $1,500 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.

  • Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC
  • Who funds BERING STRAITS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation
  • Who funds NOME COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE LEAP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ALA KAHAKAI TRAIL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ALASKA STATE FAIR INC
  • Who funds Alaska Pacific University
  • Who funds ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
  • Who funds EXCEL ALASKA INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rasmuson FoundationAK17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Thomas and Cindy Massie Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Thomas and Cindy Massie Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas and Cindy Massie 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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