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Metaphysical Arts Foundation at a glance

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Metaphysical Arts Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$285k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$900kEducation$455kYouth Development$190kReligion$40kEmployment$35kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION$50,000
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREP$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
CRISTO REY SAN JOSE$30,000
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY$30,000
ACE CHARTER SCHOOL$25,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE CENTRAL COAST$20,000
CANAL ALLIANCE$20,000
EAST SIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP$5,000
ENVISION YOUR PATHWAY$5,000
PATHWAYS TO PROMISE$57
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $60k → 8%MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 8%MOUNTAINS TO SEA: $50k → 10%PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%PATHWAYS TO PROMISE: $57 → 15%BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $30k → 8%MARIN PROMISE: $20k → 8%MOUNTAINS TO SEA: $50k → 10%PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREP: $30k → 8%MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 8%MOUNTAINS TO SEA: $30k → 10%PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $30k → 8%COLLEGE OF MARIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE CENTRAL COAS: $20k → 12%ACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $25k → 8%HANNAL PROJECT PARTNER ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT: $20k → 8%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $20k → 12%BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $15k → 8%CANAL ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $900k → 8%CANAL ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%CRISTO REY SAN JOSE: $30k → 8%CRISTO REY SAN JOSE: $30k → 8%CRISTO REY SAN JOSE - NEW LEARNING LAB: $30k → 8%OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL: $30k → 8%ENVISION YOUR PATHWAY: $20k → 8%ENVISION YOUR PATHWAY: $10k → 8%ENVISION YOUR PATHWAY: $5k → 8%EAST SIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%EAST SIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%WILDLIFE CENTER SILICON VALLEY 501C3: $10k → 8%EAST SIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%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.
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$720k · 10 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$720k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+32%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • PB
    Pebble Beach Company Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +22%
  • AC
    ACE CHARTER SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +2%
  • BS
    BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • SB
    SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $900k · revenue +32%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY SAN JOSE - NEW LEARNING LAB
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
2
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
3
Bridge California

Education

Education
4
Bridge the Gap College Prep

The mission of Bridge the Gap is to provide comprehensive educational, social and emotional resources to underserved students in Marin City and Southern Marin. Our goal is to ensure that all students graduate high school, and achieve their…

Youth Development
5
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
6
10000 Degrees

10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…

Education
7
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

—
8
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
9
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
10
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
11
Cabrillo College Foundation

To provide private support for student scholarships, emergency financial support to increase student success, innovative mentoring, and support for youth to attend college and support for academic programs and facilities.

Education
12
Partners in College Success

Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley; the most unlike its peers is Sutter Bay Medical Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $900,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…EAST SIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherEAST SIDE EDUCATION F…BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREP: $30,000 · OtherBELLARMINE COLLEGE PR…OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherOVERFELT HIGH SCHOOLCRISTO REY SAN JOSE - NEW LEARNING LAB: $30,000 · OtherCRISTO REY SAN JOSE -…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…HANNAL PROJECT PARTNER ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT: $20,000 · OtherHANNAL PROJECT PARTNE…+2 more: $10,057 · OtherACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $85,000 · EducationACE CHARTER SCHOO…BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $75,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILI…CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JO…MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP: $35,000 · EducationMARIN PROMISE PAR…COLLEGE OF MARIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF MARIN …Pebble Beach Company Foundation: $150,000 · PhilanthropyPebble Be…Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVISION YOUR PATHWAY INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCANAL ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Religion
Health$900,000Other$340,057Education$275,000Philanthropy$150,000Youth Development$75,000Religion$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVISION YOUR PATHWAY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF MARIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATHWAYS TO PROMISE: $57 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Metaphysical Arts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metaphysical Arts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.

    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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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