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Mettler Studios Inc at a glance

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Mettler Studios Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$546kEducation$3kCivil Rights$2kEnvironment$100
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$3,635
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$57,142
Individual grant recipient$5,481
Individual grant recipient$5,180
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CREATIVE DANCE$4,960
Individual grant recipient$3,982
DANCESEQUENCES INC$3,635
WINDHOVER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$1,648
Individual grant recipient$1,080
MARCIA HUBELBANK$1,000
Individual grant recipient$539
Individual grant recipient$300
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100 → 15%WINDHOVER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $2k → 10%HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $2k → 12%MARY ANN BREHM: $14k → 14%NOYES SCHOOL OF RHYTHM: $375 → 7%HAGAR USA: $2k → 10%MEG QUINN: $850 → 15%WINDHOVER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1k → 10%HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $800 → 12%MOVEMENT CULTURE: $600 → 15%WINDHOVER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $900 → 10%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $6k → 15%WINDHOVER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $550 → 10%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $4k → 15%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $4k → 15%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $4k → 15%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $3k → 15%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $2k → 15%DANCESEQUENCES INC: $550 → 15%EVOLVE DANCE: $500 → 15%KARENNE KOO: $275 → 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

VT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
MD
AZ
NC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$528k · 11 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$528k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+137%

Still filing today

18%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Civil RightsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $292k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $146k
  • DI
    DANCESEQUENCES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $23k

Funded once

  • MH
    M HENI WINAHYUNINGSIH
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 26 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)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $291,645 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $146,213 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CREATIVE DANCE: $20,999 · Other+20 more: $64,312 · Other+20 moreDANCESEQUENCES INC: $23,093 · Arts & CultureHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $2,800 · EducationHAGAR USA INC: $1,800 · Civil Rights
Other$523,169Arts & Culture$23,093Education$2,800Civil Rights$1,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDANCESEQUENCES INC: $23,093 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAGAR USA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 DANCESEQUENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds HAGAR USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mettler Studios Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mettler Studios Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Mettler Studios Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mettler Studios Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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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