Indiana · Private foundation
Met Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $161,571
- Organizations funded a year
- 75 to 88
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Met Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 85 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $996k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 82 | $916k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $933k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $727k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $677k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $655k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection | $473,794 | 7 | 22% |
| Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc | $416,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Tucson Audubon Society | $384,072 | 7 | 2% |
| National Sports Center for the Disabled Inc | $231,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Park Tudor Foundation Inc | $226,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Indiana Inc | $225,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Regis Jesuit High School | $211,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Williams College | $176,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wabash College | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Met Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Van Riper-Woodard Family Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
How this is measured
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About Met Foundation Inc
- How much does Met Foundation Inc give?
- Met Foundation Inc reported 85 grants totaling $1,368,329 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 88 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Met Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Education (19%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Met Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection ($474k), Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc ($416k), Tucson Audubon Society ($384k).
- Does Met Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Met Foundation Inc 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 Met Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc.
- Where is Met Foundation Inc based?
- Met Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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