How much did MET FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of MET FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

wild earthbrothers sistersclinic

2020

children'swild earthclinicbrothers sisters

2021

wild earthclinicnashvillebrothers sisters

2022

christian churchresearchhabitat humanitygardensbrothers sisterseducationnashville

2023

ronan johnsonbrian amandaamanda tolbertfencehonor eldergreg mcviebeth ronan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k64 grants · $284k
$10k–50k23 grants · $397k
$50k–250k4 grants · $315k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants

SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$99,572
COALITION FOR SONORAN DESERT PROTECTION$85,000
TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY$65,571
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST$65,000
NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED$37,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA$30,000
PARK TUDOR SCHOOL$30,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$30,000
REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
ST MARY'S ACADEMY$30,000
WABASH COLLEGE$25,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$20,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$15,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$15,000
THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION$12,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 108 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

108 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108

Total granted

$4.7M

$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+103%

Still filing today

50%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

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COALITION FOR SONORAN DESERT PROTECTION
6× · 2019–2024 · $373k · revenue +55%
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST
6× · 2019–2024 · $331k · revenue +301%
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TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY
6× · 2019–2024 · $299k · revenue +69%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF INDIANAPOLIS
one grant, 2022 · $50k
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NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDENS
one grant, 2021 · $15k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Grand Canyon Conservancy

As the official philanthropic and collaborative partner of grand canyon national park, grand canyon conservancy's mission is to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of grand canyon.

Environment

Eastern National

To serve america's national parks and other public trusts and their visitors

Recreation & Sports

Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment

Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition in

Colorado crane conservation coalition (cccc) was formed in may 2012 in response to a community discussion regarding the hunting of greater sandhill cranes in northwest colorado. birdwatchers, nature-lovers, and other interested citizens of…

Animals

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

City Wildlife Inc

Protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Education

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

The Commons Inc

Partnering with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated

The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ensworth School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/75

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,490

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/65

Grantees still filing

48/65

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,593,090Environment$862,443Animals$409,392Education$376,000Recreation & Sports$249,500Philanthropy$233,000Arts & Culture$179,920

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.

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN27.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial · National Forest 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 organisation MET FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471913209 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Met Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Met Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MET FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Met Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

MET FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Met Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph