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Metta Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$538k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.9MPhilanthropy$600kFood & Nutrition$430kEducation$240kEnvironment$204kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$4kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $555k
  • $250k+2 grants · $788k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYRIAD USA INC$538,000
THE SACS ENDOWMENT TRUST$250,000
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB$180,000
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$125,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC$100,000
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST$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
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.

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SCIBOSTON INC: $4k → 8%CADY INC COMMUNITIES FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG FREE YOUTH: $3k → 10%METROWEST WOMENS FUND INC: $2k → 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.

Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($500k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
South Africa$500k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Metta Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Metta Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 7 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.3M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+100%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • KF
    KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $430k · revenue +89%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $204k · revenue +27%
  • UG
    UBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +100%
  • SU
    SHELTERBOX USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • MW
    METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +480%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
4
Lycee International De Boston International School of Boston Inc

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.…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
7
Wheaton College

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…

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Ie New York College

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Education
10
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

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.

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12
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYRIAD USA INC: $1,824,933 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC+1 more: $50,000 · InternationalTHE SACS ENDOWMENT TRUST: $500,000 · OtherTHE SACS ENDOWMEN…PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · OtherKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC: $430,000 · Food & NutritionKEARSARGE FOOD…BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $125,000 · EducationCIVIC ACTION PROJECT INC: $50,000 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $25,000 · EducationEDVESTORS INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $204,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $100,000 · ReligionSHELTERBOX USA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSCIBOSTON INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesCADY INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
International$1,874,933Other$519,500Food & Nutrition$430,000Education$270,000Environment$204,000Religion$100,000Human Services$18,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $1,824,933 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC: $430,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $204,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUBUNTU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCIVIC ACTION PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCIBOSTON INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCADY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 18 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home