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Metropoulos Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $835k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BABSON COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC | $200,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH AND NATIONAL SHRINE | $100,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HAMPTONS | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| HELLENIC INTIATIVE INC | $50,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $50,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX LADIES PHILOPTOCHOS SOCIETY INC | $50,000 |
| ORDER OF ST ANDREW THE APOSTLE INC | $24,000 |
| PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $20,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $20,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Metropoulos Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +47%
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $675k · revenue +1%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- GOGREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $60k
- DODORMITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $50k
- DODORMITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HAMPTONSone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Jason Debus Heigl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 80 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 BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds National Hellenic Museum ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Washington Oxi Day Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · The James & Theodore Pedas Family Foundation Inc · Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation · Cathy and George Sakellaris Family Foundation · Spell Family Foundation co William Spell · The Katsaros Family Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · James and Virginia Kallins Foundation · The John P Calamos Foundation · John and Margo Catsimatidis Foundation Inc · The Louis and Eleni Nicozisis Family Foundation Inc · Gianaras Foundation
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 Metropoulos Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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