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Metals Service Center Institute Foundation

The purpose of the METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE FOUNDATION for continuing education is to provide scholarship funds for local chapters to distribute for post-secondary education to members' employee's children.

$61k
Granted FY2020
3
Itemized grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
33%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$26k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$8,250
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 25
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$18k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 33% of the organizations Metals Service Center Institute Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20203$26k33%
FY20185$49k0%
FY201725$239kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$309kCommunity Improvement$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
IN
WV
SC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Midsouth Chapter Metals Svc$20,000211%
Metals Service Center Institute Pittsburgh Chapter$20,000227%
Msci South Atlantic Chapter$20,000228%
Indiana Chapter Metals Service Center Institute Inc$18,2502n/a
Michigan Chapter Msci$18,0002n/a
Texas Chapter of the Steel Service$18,000215%
Washington Chapter Metals Service Center Institute$17,9002n/a
Rocky Mountain Chapter Metals Service Center Institute Inc$10,0001n/a
Central States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr$10,00017%
Intermountain Chapter Msci$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Metals Service Center Institute Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Midsouth Chapter Metals Svc$20,000211%
Metals Service Center Institute Pittsburgh Chapter$20,000227%
Msci South Atlantic Chapter$20,000228%
Indiana Chapter Metals Service Center Institute Inc$18,2502n/a
Michigan Chapter Msci$18,0002n/a
Texas Chapter of the Steel Service$18,000215%
Washington Chapter Metals Service Center Institute$17,9002n/a
Rocky Mountain Chapter Metals Service Center Institute Inc$10,0001n/a
Central States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr$10,00017%
Intermountain Chapter Msci$10,0001n/a
Philadelphia Chapter of the Metals Service Center Institute$10,000110%
Southern California Chapter of MSCI Inc$10,000112%
Steel Service Center Institute New York Chapter$10,0001n/a
Msci Metals Service Center Institute$10,0001n/a
Northern Ohio Chapter of the Metal Service Institute$10,000130%
Buffalo Chapter of the Metals Service Center Institute Inc$10,0001n/a
St Louis Chapter Metals Service Center Institute$10,0001n/a
Northwest Chapter Msci$10,0001n/a
Wi Chapter Steel Service Center Institute Inc$10,000121%
Metal Service Center Institute of Florida Scholarship Found Inc$10,000115%
New England Chapter of Metals Service Center Institute Inc$10,000128%
Midamerica Chapter-Steel Service Center Institute$10,0001n/a
Metals Service Center Institute Northern California$9,6001n/a
Gulf Region Chapter Msci$9,0001n/a
Oregon Chapter Metals Service Center Institute$7,7501n/a
Arizona Chapter Msci$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Metals Service Center Institute Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMidsouth Chapter Metals Svc: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMetals Service Center Institute Pittsburgh Chapter: $20,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetMsci South Atlantic Chapter: $20,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetTexas Chapter of the Steel Service: $18,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCentral States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPhiladelphia Chapter of the Metals Service Center Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSouthern California Chapter of MSCI Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNorthern Ohio Chapter of the Metal Service Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetWi Chapter Steel Service Center Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMetal Service Center Institute of Florida Scholarship Found Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNew England Chapter of Metals Service Center Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

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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.

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Find your warmest path to Metals Service Center Institute Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Metals Service Center Institute Foundation

How much does Metals Service Center Institute Foundation give?
Metals Service Center Institute Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $26,150, out of $60,725 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Metals Service Center Institute Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (98%), Community Improvement (2%).
Who are Metals Service Center Institute Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Midsouth Chapter Metals Svc ($20k), Metals Service Center Institute Pittsburgh Chapter ($20k), Msci South Atlantic Chapter ($20k).
Does Metals Service Center Institute Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Metals Service Center Institute Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Metals Service Center Institute.
Where is Metals Service Center Institute Foundation based?
Metals Service Center Institute Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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