Nebraska · 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.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable 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; $2k 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 | 21 | $39k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $26k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $23k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $19k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $50,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $20,700 | 6 | 0% |
| People's City Mission | $14,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Social Services | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $6,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Columbus Rescue Mission | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Time of Grace Ministry | $5,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Human Life International Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $50,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $20,700 | 6 | 0% |
| People's City Mission | $14,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Social Services | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $6,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Columbus Rescue Mission | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Time of Grace Ministry | $5,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Human Life International Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| EVERY AND ALL aka CITY OF GOD | $2,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fresh Start Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wild Horses Building Champions Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation
- How much does Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation give?
- Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $47,816 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (35%), Housing & Shelter (24%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Catholic Relief Services ($50k), Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House ($21k), People's City Mission ($15k).
- Does Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable 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 Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation based?
- Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation is based in NE.
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