· Private foundation
Metta Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $555k
- $250k+2 grants · $788k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYRIAD USA INC | $538,000 |
| THE SACS ENDOWMENT TRUST | $250,000 |
| KEARSARGE FOOD HUB | $180,000 |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $125,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $100,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $100,000 |
| CIVIC ACTION PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON | $25,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $20,000 |
| FAY SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| EDVESTORS INC | $10,000 |
| SUFFIELD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SCIBOSTON INC | $3,500 |
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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($2.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($500k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($500k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Metta Charitable 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
- KFKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC3× · 2021–2024 · $430k · revenue +89%
ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $204k · revenue +27%- UGUBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +100%
- SUSHELTERBOX USA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
- MWMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +480%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The international school of boston (isb) is an independent, non-profit, preschool-12 french-english bilingual and international school located in cambridge, massachusetts, in one of the most vibrant metropolitan areas in the united states.…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Suffield Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds CIVIC ACTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIBOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CADY INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Metta Charitable 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.
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Civic Action Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% 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.