How much did METTA FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of METTA FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

partnershipgirls runrun baytenderloinplayworks educationeducation energizedclinic

2019

evaluation learninglearning buildingattend agingaging leadershipleadership conferenceparticipants attendattend leadership

2020

covid olderadults immediateimpact covidcovid socialsocial well-beingwell-being psychologicalpsychological health

2021

covid vaccinevaccine rolloutcaregivingleadership transitiondomestic employerscertifiedrights

2022

adults multi-sectorapproach mappingcouncil's digitalequity frameworkframework oldermulti-sector approachunderstanding

2023

broadband digitalequity beadbead workshopworkshop oaklandequity householdhousehold surveycalifornia's digital

2024

francisco africanchinesedigital equitycaresouthwest corporationactionymca's

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 49 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–250k25 grants · $2.4M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$72M

Total assets

Largest grants

RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$165,000
THE SCAN FOUNDATION$125,000
BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR SERVICES$112,500
OPENHOUSE$100,000
MISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL$100,000
COALITION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE ELDERLY$100,000
SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO SENIOR AND DISABILITY ACTION$100,000
FILIPINO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$100,000
PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER$100,000
YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
THE SCAN FOUNDATION$100,000
US4US BAYAREA$100,000

02The need

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, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$19M · 81 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19M

$729k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

+90%

Still filing today

78%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $397k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CL
COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +211%
SF
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY
8× · 2017–2024 · $796k · revenue +70%
H
HOMEBRIDGE
7× · 2017–2023 · $743k · revenue +25%

Funded once

CI
COLLECTIVE IMPACTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +224%
RD
RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +184%
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.

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

San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter

San Francisco Community Agencies

To ensure that those serving san francisco's vulnerable populations are prepared for a disaster.

Human Services

North and South of Market Adult Day

SteppingStone supports independent living for elders and adults with medical challenges through a day health program that optimizes the physical and psycho-social well-being of San Francisco's culturally diverse community.

Human Services

San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life in San Francisco by delivering public-interest journalism to broad and diverse audiences through print and interactive media not supported by advertising. The San…

Education

Housing Rights Committee of

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

Street Level Health Project

Health Care for All is the heart of the Oakland-based grassroots organization Street Level Health Project Street Level. Incorporated in 2001, Street Level is a critical entry point into the healthcare and social service system for those…

Health

San Francisco Historical Society

To provide services to the public that enable the understanding and appreciation of the history of San Francisco.

Unclassified

Advance Sf

Advance SF 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. The…

Human Services

Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness

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

Health

San Francisco Drug Users Union

San Francisco Drug Users Union advocates at the local, state, and federal level for the protection and promotion of the health and wellness of people who use drugs.

Health

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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.

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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/110

the rest of the field

10%

618/6,316

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.

05the grantee network

107 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

104/107

Grantees still filing

88/107

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$10,747,870Human Services$4,373,285Civil Rights$1,905,050Health$982,200Education$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

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.

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 FoundationCA77.5× affinity54 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 · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Crankstart Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Sutter Bay Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CARA EDUCATION FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 203253963 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CARA EDUCATION FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Metta Fund?

Find your warmest path to Metta Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

METTA FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

107 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Metta Fund?

More from the funding graph

METTA FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

107 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Metta Fund?

More from the funding graph