· Private foundation
Thomas and Cindy Massie Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACAlaska Community Fund2× · 2020–2021 · $840k
- NVNative Village of Unakleet2× · 2021–2023 · $301k
- BSBERING STRAITS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue -96% · 99% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SFSMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
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…
To provide electric power to 59 remote alaskan villages.
Oppose 2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2, which would have repealed nonpartisan open primaries and ranked choice voting.
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…
Provide training in the electrical industry for electrical apprentices and journeymen.
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.
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.
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…
The alaska museum of science and nature is dedicated to the education and exploration of our scientific and natural world.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 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.
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.
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.
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