How much does Metals Service Center Institute give?

Metals Service Center Institute reported 27 itemized grants totaling $405,000, out of $480,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Metals Service Center Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).

Who are Metals Service Center Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Washington Chapter Metals Service Center Institute ($80k), Metal Service Center Institute of Florida Scholarship Found Inc ($80k), Intermountain Chapter Msci ($80k).

Does Metals Service Center Institute fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Metals Service Center Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Metals Service Center Institute Foundation.

Where is Metals Service Center Institute based?

Metals Service Center Institute is based in IL.

Metals Service Center Institute

Metals Service Center Institute at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$480k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.0M

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 27 grants below total $405,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $480,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTRAL NEW YORK CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
SOUTH ATLANTIC 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
INTERMOUNTAIN CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
INLAND NORTHWEST CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
GULF REGION CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
MICHIGAN CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
CINCINNATI CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000
TEXAS CHAPTER MSCI	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its 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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$75k · 100% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 27 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

Still filing today

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationScience & TechOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

CS
Central States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr
7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +17%
NO
Northern Ohio Chapter of the Metal Service Institute
7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +20% · 37% of their budget
SC
Southern California Chapter of MSCI Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +45%

Funded once

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Instrument Society of America - Texas Channel Section

Education for industry professionals

Education

Detroit Golf Club Caddie Scholarship Foundation

Education

Montclair Society of Engineers

Science & Tech

Maryland State Lodge Sons of Italy Foundation Inc

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Albert C Steele Memorial Scholarship

Education

Laborers Midwest Region Scholarship Fund

Education

Society of Manufacturing Engineers Chapter 43

Engineering education assistance

—

Massachusetts Afl-Cio Scholarship Corporation

Education

Miss Statesville Scholarship Program Association

Education

Minnesota Radiological Society Foundation

Health

Jackson Rotary Club Charities

Scholarships

Community Improvement

Massachusetts Bankers Association Scholarship Foundation

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metals Service Center Institute Northern California; 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.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

7/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,571,750Community Improvement$305,000Education$80,000Science & Tech$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Metals Service Center Institute FoundationIL60.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Metals Service Center Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metals Service Center Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home