· Private foundation
Alyce J & Ann J Metka Charitable Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLESSING HOUSE | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES | $25,000 |
| GOOD KNIGHTS OF LORAIN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| RIVEON | $15,000 |
| OHIO GUIDESTONE | $11,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS | $10,000 |
| FILIPINO AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF OHIO | $8,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE | $6,500 |
| LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BHBLESSING HOUSE8× · 2018–2025 · $221k · revenue +123%
- OOhioGuidestone7× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +35%
- NANEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- VFVOICES FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $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.
The organization operates a childhood center in oberlin, ohio for up tp 100 children ages six weeks to five years old. the center provides a unique, child centered campus for anyone in need regardless of financial ability.
The organization provides a comprehensive range of family focused services for lorain county, ohio victims of domestic violence. we endeavor to be a part of collaborative community
Oberlin community services council is a responsive community organization that provides direct assistance, referrals, outreach and educational support to lorain county residents who struggle to meet basic needs.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential. Advocates for Kids envisions children achieving a clearer…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.
The Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra provides exceptional musical education through a variety of performance opportunities for young musicians of all backgrounds in an inclusive community of learning and growth.
The organization provides homeless prevention services, emergency shelter and basic needs, housing solutions and family and early childhood services to families in a housing crisis
Oan convenes stakeholders to advocate for support and facilitate the development of quality, sustainability, out-of-school time programs for ohio's children and youth.
Coalition of Care of Greater Cincinnati exists to mobilize churches and to inspire volunteers to care for vulnerable children and fragile families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone and the most unlike its peers is Filipino American Foundation of Ohio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GOOD KNIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FILIPINO AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds OBERLIN CHORISTERS ↗
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: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Norton Family Foundation · 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 Alyce J & Ann J Metka Charitable Fdn 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.