Illinois · Private foundation
Metzner Family Foundation
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.
- $409k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,557
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Metzner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $393k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $335k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $359k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $294k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $199k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $192k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $168k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $161k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $169,585 | 8 | 0% |
| The Richard H Driehaus Museum | $112,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $47,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Columbia College Chicago | $40,229 | 4 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Arizona Theatre Company | $39,620 | 8 | 0% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $28,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Metzner Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Terra Foundation for American Art · Builders Vision Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jack & Sandra Guthman Fdn · The Atkins Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Metzner Family Foundation
- How much does Metzner Family Foundation give?
- Metzner Family Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $409,298 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Metzner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Religion (12%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Metzner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Contemporary Art ($170k), The Richard H Driehaus Museum ($113k), Writers Theatre Inc ($60k).
- Does Metzner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Metzner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Metzner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Field Foundation of Illinois, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is Metzner Family Foundation based?
- Metzner Family Foundation is based in IL.
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