· Private foundation
Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of RAYMOND L AND RITA M METZNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $9,300 |
| LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $3,800 |
| PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION | $3,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $2,000 |
| TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| COLUMBUS RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| ST PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MATT TALBOT KITCHEN AND OUTREACH | $1,000 |
| HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| NE COALTION FOR LIFE INC EDUCATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ODOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +1%
- PCPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WHWILD HORSES BUILDING CHAMPIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Hope gospel rescue mission is a christ centered ministry in york, nebraska. helping the hurting & homeless in the name of jesus christ.
Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
See schedule o description of our mission and vision.
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…
The ougm exists as an evangelical christian rescue mission, serving thurston county, to share the good news of life in jesus christ by meeting the physical, mental and spiritual needs of individuals in crisis.
Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbus Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY AND ALL aka CITY OF GOD ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds WILD HORSES BUILDING CHAMPIONS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable Foundation · The Hampton Family Foundation · Donlan Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Cooper Foundation · Orphan Grain Train Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 organization Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.