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Jerry Metcalf Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 21
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$224k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Jerry Metcalf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$5k0%
FY202021$57k62%
FY201914$48k79%
FY201818$55k89%
FY201710$36kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$80kEnvironment$44kPublic Benefit$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kHealth$10kYouth Development$9kAnimals$8kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerry Metcalf Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHolter Museum of Art: $16,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNorthern Plains Resource Council: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetArchie Bray Foundation: $13,590 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPowder River First Responders Ltd: $9,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $8,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Myrna Loy: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetForward Mt Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMontana Legal Services Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Paradise Center: $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetThe Roxy Theater: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMontana Environmental Information Center: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBridgercare: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrphan Girl Childrens Theatre: $3,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetClark Fork Coalition: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontana Food Bank Network Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Mountain Clinic Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Park and Sweet Grass Counties: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGarden City Harvest Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhoenix Arts Alliance Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUpper Missouri River Watershed Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPoverello Center Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT BURN STUDY GROUP dba Great Burn Conservation Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Missouri Breaks Monument: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBig Hole River Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEducation Foundation for Billings Public Schools: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMontana History Foundation: $1,970 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHamilton Players Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCarter County Geological Society: $1,020 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Treacy FoundationMT32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Treacy Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Patagoniaorg · The High Stakes Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Wakeman Henderson Charitable Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Jerry Metcalf 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.

About Jerry Metcalf Foundation

How much does Jerry Metcalf Foundation give?
Jerry Metcalf Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Jerry Metcalf Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Environment (22%), Public Benefit (5%).
Who are Jerry Metcalf Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Holter Museum of Art ($17k), Northern Plains Resource Council ($14k), Archie Bray Foundation ($14k).
Does Jerry Metcalf Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jerry Metcalf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jerry Metcalf Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Treacy Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
Where is Jerry Metcalf Foundation based?
Jerry Metcalf Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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