Funding search · EIN 851228011 · Chattanooga, TN

Gary Messina Family Foundation

Name: Gary Messina Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

54
grants reported: $412,885
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $3,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Hillsdale College4 grants · $165,000
Aslan Youth Ministeries4 grants · $69,645
Students for Life of America4 grants · $53,000
Trinity Episcopal Church4 grants · $35,840
Solutions Health & Pregnancy Center3 grants · $23,000
Thomas More Society4 grants · $11,000
St Jude Childrens Hospital4 grants · $10,000
Marys Place By the Shore2 grants · $9,000
Jersey Shore Dream Center4 grants · $8,000
Shriners Hospitals for Children4 grants · $7,500

Giving over time

$117,360

2022

$189,400

2023

$106,125

2024

Grant history

All 54 reported grants, largest first.

$50,000
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2023
Charitable
$50,000
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2023
Charitable
$50,000
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2022
Charitable
$30,000
Trinity Episcopal Church · Red Bank, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$21,520
Aslan Youth Ministeries · Red Bank, NJ · 2022
Charitable
$20,125
Aslan Youth Ministeries · Red Bank, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$20,000
Students for Life of America · Fredericksburg, VA · 2024
Charitable
$15,000
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2024
Charitable
$15,000
Students for Life of America · Fredericksburg, VA · 2023
Charitable
$15,000
Students for Life of America · Fredericksburg, VA · 2023
Charitable
$14,000
Aslan Youth Ministeries · Red Bank, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$14,000
Aslan Youth Ministeries · Red Bank, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$10,000
Solutions Health & Pregnancy Center · Shrewsbury, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$6,500
Solutions Health & Pregnancy Center · Shrewsbury, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$6,500
Solutions Health & Pregnancy Center · Shrewsbury, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$5,840
Trinity Episcopal Church · Red Bank, NJ · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
St Jude Childrens Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2024
Charitable
$5,000
Alliance Defending Freedom · Scottsdale, AZ · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Marys Place By the Shore · Ocean Grove, NJ · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Samaritans Purse · Boone, NC · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Shriners Hospitals for Children · Tampa, FL · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
St Jude Childrens Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Thomas More Society · Chicago, IL · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Tunnel To Towers · Staten Island, NY · 2022
Charitable
$4,000
Marys Place By the Sea · Ocean Grove, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$4,000
Marys Place By the Shore · Ocean Grove, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$3,000
Thomas More Society · Chicago, IL · 2023
Charitable
$3,000
Thomas More Society · Chicago, IL · 2023
Charitable
$3,000
Students for Life of America · Fredericksburg, VA · 2022
Charitable
$2,500
Shriners Hospitals for Children · Tampa, FL · 2024
Charitable
$2,000
Jersey Shore Dream Center · Neptune, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$2,000
Jersey Shore Dream Center · Neptune, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$2,000
Jersey Shore Dream Center · Neptune, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$2,000
Jersey Shore Dream Center · Neptune, NJ · 2022
Charitable
$1,000
Love Thy Neighbor · Long Branch, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$500
Marys Place By the Sea · Ocean Grove, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$400
Hosa · Trenton, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$0
Alliance Defending Freedom · Scottsdale, AZ · 2024
Charitable
$0
Hosa · Trenton, NJ · 2024
Charitable
$0
Samaritans Purse · Boone, NC · 2024
Charitable
$0
Thomas More Society · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable
$0
Tunnel To Towers · Staten Island, NY · 2024
Charitable
$0
Alliance Defending Freedom · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023
Charitable
$0
Alliance Defending Freedom · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023
Charitable
$0
Samaritans Purse · Boone, NC · 2023
Charitable
$0
Samaritans Purse · Boone, NC · 2023
Charitable
$0
Shriners Hospitals for Children · Tampa, FL · 2023
Charitable
$0
Shriners Hospitals for Children · Tampa, FL · 2023
Charitable
$0
St Jude Childrens Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2023
Charitable
$0
St Jude Childrens Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2023
Charitable
$0
Trinity Episcopal Church · Red Bank, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$0
Trinity Episcopal Church · Red Bank, NJ · 2023
Charitable
$0
Tunnel To Towers · Staten Island, NY · 2023
Charitable
$0
Tunnel To Towers · Staten Island, NY · 2023
Charitable

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.