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Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc

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.

$572k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$572k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MPhilanthropy$861kArts & Culture$557kScience & Tech$141kYouth Development$138kCivil Rights$20kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$572,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STONY BROOK FOUNDATION$572,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%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

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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.
$3.4M · 110 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

110 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 109 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110
39

Total granted

$3.4M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyScience & TechRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $847k · revenue +214%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +76%
  • PM
    Project MEGSSS Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $62k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK METRO
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CC
    CYPRUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +33%
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.

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Museum School

The museum school celebrates, nurtures and enhances the ability of all participants through experimental, project-based learning. infusing the arts and utilizing resources available at local museums.

Education
2
Curious Kids Museum

The curious kids' museum encourages discovery, wonder and awe for children. this interactive, hands-on playground for the mind fulfills its educational leadership role by stimulating curiosity, awareness and life preparedness in science,…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Science

The mission of the museum of science is to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone. through exhibits, curricula, programs, and events, both live and virtual, we aim to make science and scientific thinking accessible, engaging, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
6
Mississippi Children's Museum

We create unparalleled experiences to inspire excellence and a lifelong joy of learning.

Arts & Culture
7
The Discovery Museum Inc

The Discovery Museum strives to engage, excite, and educate young learners through experiences and programs that inspire wonder and ignite creativity as the foundation for a lifetime love of science, technology, engineering, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Discovery

To ignite and fuel a passion for science, technology, arts and math through dynamic interactive experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Explorium Denton Childrens Museum

We believe that children should be able to explore their curiosities in a safe environment. engaging the community, including the family unit, is imperative in a child's development. to educate children means more than sending them…

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Bay Area Discovery Museum

We create playful learning experiences that inspire a passion for discovery in every child.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Hudson Children's Museum D/B/a Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum; the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. 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

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/102
Grantees still filing
81/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $847,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYLong Island School for the Gifted: $84,000 · EducationProject MEGSSS Inc: $62,000 · Education+26 more: $573,000 · Education+26 moreMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $225,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYCENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH (JOHNS HOPKINS): $175,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH (JOHNS HOPKIN…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK METRO: $100,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK METRO+61 more: $780,500 · Other+61 moreLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $22,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $16,500 · Arts & CultureTALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSTATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,500 · Arts & CultureOmaha Children's Museum: $16,500 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $16,500 · Arts & Culture+37 more: $297,500 · Arts & Culture+37 moreTALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC: $38,000 · Science & TechCHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Science & TechCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $19,000 · PhilanthropyMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $13,500 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$1,766,000Other$1,280,500Arts & Culture$494,000Science & Tech$41,000Philanthropy$32,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Youth Development$10,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $847,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island School for the Gifted: $84,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetProject MEGSSS Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetMERIDIAN ACADEMY INC: $44,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe Winston School: $38,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CREFELD SCHOOL: $38,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTOWER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC: $38,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY: $38,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSycamore Schools Inc: $38,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN SCHOOL: $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA HERITAGE SCHOOL: $38,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAvery Coonley School: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WEISS GIFTED AND TALENTED SCHOOL INC D/B/A THE WEISS SCHOOL: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED CHILDREN: $32,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE SCHOOL OF CHAMPAIGN-URBANA INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL: $25,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $19,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELGIN ACADEMY: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN WINDOW SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTALLAHASSEE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetExpERIEnce Children's Museum: $15,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% 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 STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Long Island School for the Gifted ↗
  • Who funds Project MEGSSS Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERIDIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Winston School ↗
  • Who funds THE CREFELD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TOWER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Sycamore Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGREEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA HERITAGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Avery Coonley School ↗
  • Who funds THE WEISS GIFTED AND TALENTED SCHOOL INC D/B/A THE WEISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRYSIDE SCHOOL OF CHAMPAIGN-URBANA INC ↗
  • Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗

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.

Association of Childr…Association of Scienc…Ibm International Fou…Fidelity FoundationPublix Super Markets …Museum of ScienceThe Argosy FoundationPwc Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…Lilly Endowment IncCombined Jewish Phila…Charities Aid Foundat…
Association of Children's Museums IncVA28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Association of Children's Museums Inc · Association of Science-Technology Centers Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Museum of Science · The Argosy Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mr Metzger Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Connecticut Childrens Museum Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
  • Montshire Museum of Science Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Museum of Discovery and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 149 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home