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Metta Fund

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$12MHealth$3.2MCivil Rights$1.3MHousing & Shelter$690kEmployment$615kFood & Nutrition$613kEducation$610kYouth Development$583kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.6M
$55,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$165,000
THE SCAN FOUNDATION$125,000
BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR SERVICES$112,500
YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
US4US BAYAREA$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO SENIOR AND DISABILITY ACTION$100,000
COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN$100,000
SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$100,000
COALITION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE ELDERLY$100,000
FELTON INSTITUTE$100,000
OPENHOUSE$100,000
YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
COMMUNITY TECH NETWORK$100,000
PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $110k → 14%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE SCAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $75k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $100k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $75k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $150k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $125k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $75k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $75k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $150k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $125k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $100k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $100k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $85k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%FILIPINO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $150k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $125k → 10%ON LOK DAY SERVICES: $100k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 76 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

76 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
45

Total granted

$20M
$689k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+40%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +40%
  • CL
    Community Living Campaign
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +270%
  • HI
    HOMEBRIDGE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $843k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • CI
    Collective Impact
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -42%
  • RD
    RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +185%
  • MU
    MUJURES UNITAS Y ACTIVAS
    one grant, 2021 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
3
San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society
Health
4
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education
5
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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6
Family Bridges Inc

We empower individuals, families, and seniors to achieve wellness, stability, and independence through culturally-competent care.

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7
Homeownership San Francisco dba Home Sf

The Organization is a citywide collaborative of housing counseling agencies that helps diverse and underserved households achieve and sustain homeownership in San Francisco.

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8
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
9
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
10
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
11
Westside Community Mental Health Center Westside Community Services Inc

The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.

Health
12
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Renaissance Parents of Success. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Labor UnionsYouth Arts & Recreation Pro…Low-Income Community Servic…K-12 Education & Youth Deve…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr12%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/120
the rest of the field
12%
2,059/16,562

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.

04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 133 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
87/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $1,106,500 · OtherRICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERHOMEBRIDGE INC — $842,500 · OtherHOMEBRIDGE INCBayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services Inc — $696,850 · OtherBayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services …MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $500,000 · OtherSHANTI PROJECT — $495,350 · OtherSTEPPINGSTONE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER — $470,000 · OtherFelton Institute — $451,350 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $370,000 · OtherSan Francisco Senior and Disability Action DBA Senior & Disability Action — $356,350 · OtherJUSTICE IN AGING — $347,500 · Other+58 more — $3,921,620 · Other+58 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,888,850 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O…SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $796,350 · Human ServicesSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLYKIMOCHI INC — $712,000 · Human ServicesKIMOCHI INCTHE SCAN FOUNDATION — $635,000 · Human ServicesTHE SCAN FOUNDATIONCURRY SENIOR CENTER — $605,500 · Human ServicesCURRY SENIOR CENTERSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY — $357,500 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTH…Mujeres Unidas y Activas — $350,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE ON AGING — $260,000 · Human ServicesON LOK DAY SERVICES — $255,000 · Human Services+18 more — $762,435 · Human Services+18 moreCommunity Living Campaign — $1,165,050 · Civil RightsCommunity …CARA EDUCATION FUND — $430,000 · Civil RightsCARA EDUCA…National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $400,000 · Civil RightsNational D…SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION — $200,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $175,000 · HealthRafiki Coalition For Health and Wellness — $157,500 · HealthFront Porch Communities Foundation — $125,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $105,000 · HealthON LOK INC — $85,000 · HealthFAMILY CAREGIVER ALLIANCE — $80,000 · Health+12 more — $60,700 · HealthCommunity Tech Network — $364,000 · EducationREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS — $153,000 · EducationGOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $32,500 · Education+3 more — $17,500 · EducationOpenhouse — $495,350 · Housing & ShelterTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $105,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION — $42,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $14,500 · Housing & ShelterPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $158,500 · Youth DevelopmentCollective Impact — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $99,000 · Youth DevelopmentHunters Point Family Inc — $66,500 · Youth DevelopmentUnited Playaz — $17,500 · Youth Development
Other$9,558,020Human Services$6,622,635Civil Rights$1,995,050Health$988,200Education$717,000Housing & Shelter$657,350Youth Development$441,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,888,850 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Living Campaign — $1,165,050 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetHOMEBRIDGE INC — $842,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $796,350 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKIMOCHI INC — $712,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetBayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services Inc — $696,850 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SCAN FOUNDATION — $635,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCURRY SENIOR CENTER — $605,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT — $495,350 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetOpenhouse — $495,350 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetFelton Institute — $451,350 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCARA EDUCATION FUND — $430,000 over 7y, 74% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $400,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $370,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Tech Network — $364,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY — $357,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetSan Francisco Senior and Disability Action DBA Senior & Disability Action — $356,350 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas — $350,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING — $347,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetWalk San Francisco Foundation — $313,500 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $311,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBAYVIEW FUTURES FKA CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS — $300,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL — $290,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING — $260,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetON LOK DAY SERVICES — $255,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCovia Foundation — $210,350 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION — $205,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC — $205,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities — $175,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $158,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $158,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRafiki Coalition For Health and Wellness — $157,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS — $153,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFront Porch Communities Foundation — $125,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGirls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc — $108,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $107,500 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFilipino-American Development Foundation — $105,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCollective Impact — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds Community Living Campaign ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds KIMOCHI INC ↗
  • Who funds Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SCAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CURRY SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
  • Who funds SHANTI PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Openhouse ↗
  • Who funds Felton Institute ↗
  • Who funds CARA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Tech Network ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Senior and Disability Action DBA Senior & Disability Action ↗
  • Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE IN AGING ↗
  • Who funds Walk San Francisco Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
  • Who funds BAYVIEW FUTURES FKA CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds ON LOK DAY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Covia Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds Support for Families of Children with Disabilities ↗
  • Who funds SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
  • Who funds Rafiki Coalition For Health and Wellness ↗
  • Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationCrankstart FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Bothin FoundationStupski FoundationJewish Community Fede…The James Irvine Foun…Tipping Point Communi…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Sutter Bay Hospitals
The San Francisco FoundationCA91.2× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The James Irvine Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals

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 Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Metta Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Metta Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 133 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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    where grant money is based, and what stays home