· Public charity
Metals Service Center Institute
The purpose of the institute shall be enhancing the efficiency and productivity of member companies by providing information, education, governmental representation, networking opportunities and a forum to enhance the quality of products and services in meeting their customers', suppliers and employees' expectations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $405,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $480,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH ATLANTIC CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| MID-AMERICA CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL STATES CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| ARIZONA CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| PITTSBURG CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL NEW YORK CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| MID-SOUTH CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| OREGON CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| FLORIDA CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN OHIO CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
| INLAND NORTHWEST CHAPTER MSCI | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $75k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WCWI CHAPTER STEEL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +75%
- NENEW ENGLAND CHAPTER OF METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +25% · 42% of their budget
- MSMetals Service Center Institute Northern California7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +21% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
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.
Education for industry professionals
Engineering education assistance
Scholarships
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metals Service Center Institute Northern California and the most unlike its peers is Msci South Atlantic Chapter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 METAL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUND INC ↗
- Who funds WI CHAPTER STEEL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER OF THE METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER OF METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Metals Service Center Institute Northern California ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Southern California Chapter of MSCI Inc ↗
- Who funds Northern Ohio Chapter of the Metal Service Institute ↗
- Who funds Central States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHAPTER MSCI ↗
- Who funds METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE PITTSBURGH CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds MIDSOUTH CHAPTER METALS SVC ↗
- Who funds MSCI SOUTH ATLANTIC CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHAPTER OF THE STEEL SERVICE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Metals Service Center Institute 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.