Natale & Elizabeth Messina Family Foundation

How to apply, from its 2025 IRS return

How to ask

The foundation will only consider letters of inquiry submitted in response to an invitation from the foundation. Letters of inquiry should describe the intended project and its anticipated costs in one page and confirm the grantee's tax-exempt status. Proposals should only be submitted after notification that the letter of inquiry has been favorably reviewed. Non-profits that have received a grant for three consecutive years may not be invited to apply for a year. The foundation must be listed…

Deadlines

As determined by the foundation directors.

Limits on who can apply

The primary activities of the foundation shall be to fund and to make grants to organizations which qualify as charitable medical, educational, religious, cultural or humanitarian organizations described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and which shall be tax exempt under Section 501(a), and contributions to which shall be tax deductible under Section 170(c)(2). The foundation shall not make grants to organizations not organized and tax qualified under the laws of the United…

Grants paid in 2025

$14,350, to organizations

This is what the foundation told the IRS on Form 990-PF. It isn’t a confirmed open grant round, and details may have changed, so contact the foundation before applying. Its mailing address is on the full return: see it on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.