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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
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $26,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $60,725 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,575 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.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO CHAPTER MSCI$10,000
INDIANA CHAPTER MSCI$8,250
WASHINGTON CHAPTER MSCI$7,900
02The need
03

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 (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUFFALO CHAPTER MSCI: $10k → 14%TEXAS CHAPTER MSCI: $9k → 16%MICHIGAN CHAPTER MSCI: $10k → 8%MID-SOUTH CHAPTER MSCI: $10k → 17%SOUTH ATLANTIC CHAPTER MSCI: $10k → 9%INDIANA CHAPTER MSCI: $8k → 16%PITTSBURG CHAPTER MSCI: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MI
NY
IN
WV
SC
AL
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 7 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$132k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20
Community ImprovementScience & TechEducationOther
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

  • MC
    MIDSOUTH CHAPTER METALS SVC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue -27%
  • MS
    METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE PITTSBURGH CHAPTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +48% · 27% of their budget
  • MS
    MSCI SOUTH ATLANTIC CHAPTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +50% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CS
    Central States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • IC
    INTERMOUNTAIN CHAPTER MSCI
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

1
Instrument Society of America - Texas Channel Section

Education for industry professionals

Education
2
Detroit Golf Club Caddie Scholarship Foundation
Education
3
Montclair Society of Engineers
Science & Tech
4
Maryland State Lodge Sons of Italy Foundation Inc
—
5
Albert C Steele Memorial Scholarship
Education
6
Laborers Midwest Region Scholarship Fund
Education
7
Society of Manufacturing Engineers Chapter 43

Engineering education assistance

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8
Massachusetts Afl-Cio Scholarship Corporation
Education
9
Miss Statesville Scholarship Program Association
Education
10
Minnesota Radiological Society Foundation
Health
11
Jackson Rotary Club Charities

Scholarships

Community Improvement
12
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 26 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDSOUTH CHAPTER METALS SVC: $20,000 · OtherMIDSOUTH CHAPTER METALS SVCMSCI SOUTH ATLANTIC CHAPTER: $20,000 · OtherMSCI SOUTH ATLANTIC CHAPTERINDIANA CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC: $18,250 · OtherINDIANA CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INCMICHIGAN CHAPTER MSCI: $18,000 · OtherMICHIGAN CHAPTER MSCITEXAS CHAPTER OF THE STEEL SERVICE: $18,000 · OtherTEXAS CHAPTER OF THE STEEL SERVICEWASHINGTON CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE: $17,900 · OtherWASHINGTON CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTEROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · OtherCentral States Chapter of Metal Service Ctr: $10,000 · OtherINTERMOUNTAIN CHAPTER MSCI: $10,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA CHAPTER OF THE METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherSTEEL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE NEW YORK CHAPTER: $10,000 · OtherMSCI METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherNorthern Ohio Chapter of the Metal Service Institute: $10,000 · OtherBUFFALO CHAPTER OF THE METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · OtherST LOUIS CHAPTER METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherNORTHWEST CHAPTER MSCI: $10,000 · OtherWI CHAPTER STEEL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · OtherMIDAMERICA CHAPTER-STEEL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherGULF REGION CHAPTER MSCI: $9,000 · Other+1 more: $7,750 · OtherMETALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE PITTSBURGH CHAPTER: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMETALS SERVICE C…NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER OF METALS SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ENGLAND CHAP…Metals Service Center Institute Northern California: $9,600 · Community ImprovementMetals Service C…ARIZONA CHAPTER MSCI: $6,000 · Community ImprovementARIZONA CHAPTER …Southern California Chapter of MSCI Inc: $10,000 · Science & TechMETAL SERVICE CENTER INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUND INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$248,900Community Improvement$45,600Science & Tech$10,000Education$10,000

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

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
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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    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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    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.

    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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