· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $732k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $432k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $161,571 |
| COALITION FOR SONORAN DESERT PROTECTION | $100,572 |
| ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST | $85,000 |
| TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY | $85,000 |
| REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED | $40,000 |
| PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC | $38,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC | $35,000 |
| ST MARYS ACADEMY FOR THE SISTERS OF LORETTO | $30,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $30,000 |
| PENTWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $27,000 |
| CROSS POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,123 |
| WABASH COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC | $22,623 |
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 (FY19–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- CFCoalition for Sonoran Desert Protection7× · 2019–2025 · $474k · revenue +98%
ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $416k · revenue +22%- TATucson Audubon Society7× · 2019–2025 · $384k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF INDIANAPOLISone grant, 2022 · $50k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -21%- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERSone grant, 2022 · $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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Mountain Bike Association. 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.
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 45 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
83 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. 83 of the 146 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 Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA LAND AND WATER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Wabash College ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PENTWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
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: 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
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 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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.
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