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Metta Tree Foundation 43-59869

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHealth$965kHuman Services$500kEducation$150kRecreation & Sports$100kPhilanthropy$100k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$175,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVE DIRECTLY$250,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE$200,000
CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK$175,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$175,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$175,000
YMCA ROME AND FLOYD COUNTY$150,000
FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC$100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$75,000
ROME FLOYD COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF ROME & FLOYD COUNTY: $50k → 15%YMCA OF ROME & FLOYD COUNTY: $50k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
WY
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 14 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$2.8M
$215k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther
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

  • GIVEDIRECTLY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $500k · revenue +18%
  • CA
    Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $375k · revenue +12%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HM
    HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HM
    HARVARD MEDICINE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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2
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Young Mens Christian Association of Rome and Floyd County Georgia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $250,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKYMCA ROME AND FLOYD COUNTY: $225,000 · OtherYMCA ROME AND FLOYD COUNTYJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE: $125,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINEBRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $125,000 · OtherBRAIN CHEMISTRY LABSSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF E TN: $100,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF E TNHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICINE SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $40,000 · Other+2 more: $40,000 · OtherChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $375,000 · Food & NutritionChattanooga Area Food Ba…ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $300,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD B…GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCYoung Mens Christian Association of Rome and Floyd County Georgia Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian …THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $400,000 · HealthTHE INSTITUTE FOR …NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL COUNCIL F…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationFOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,080,000Food & Nutrition$675,000Human Services$600,000Health$500,000Education$150,000Philanthropy$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $400,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $375,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Rome and Floyd County Georgia Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS ↗
  • Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Rome and Floyd County Georgia Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Tree Foundation 43-59869 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metta Tree Foundation 43-59869. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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