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Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$56kHousing & Shelter$38kHuman Services$23kReligion$12kInternational$10kEducation$9kPhilanthropy$8kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$2,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$2,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$2,000
TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY$2,000
COLUMBUS RESCUE MISSION$1,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$1,000
FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS HOME$1,000
ST PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
MATT TALBOT KITCHEN AND OUTREACH$1,000
FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC$1,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $4k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $4k → 12%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN AND OUTREACH: $1k → 13%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $4k → 12%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN AND OUTREACH: $500 → 13%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $4k → 12%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN AND OUTREACH: $500 → 13%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN AND OUTREACH: $500 → 13%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%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

WA
WI
NY
SD
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
LA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 14 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$137k
$100

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+83%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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

  • OD
    OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +1%
  • PC
    PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WH
    WILD HORSES BUILDING CHAMPIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +83%
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.

1
Light of Life Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Wounded Spirits Ministries

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…

Recreation & Sports
3
Hope Gospel Rescue Mission Inc

Hope gospel rescue mission is a christ centered ministry in york, nebraska. helping the hurting & homeless in the name of jesus christ.

Religion
4
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
5
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

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.

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6
City Mission Society Inc

See schedule o description of our mission and vision.

Human Services
7
Church World Service Inc

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.

International
8
Free to Worship Ministries

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.

Religion
9
Springfield Rescue Mission

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…

Human Services
10
Union Gospel Mission Association of Olympia

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.

Human Services
11
Mission of Mercy
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12
Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $50,400 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $12,000 · OtherCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICESFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $6,500 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYNE COALTION FOR LIFE INC EDUCATION: $6,000 · OtherNE COALTION FOR LIFE INC EDUCATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Other+8 more: $9,880 · Other+8 moreOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $20,700 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION…MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $2,500 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCH…FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $14,900 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE'S C…WORLD VISION INC: $5,460 · InternationalHUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 · InternationalTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $5,650 · ReligionEVERY AND ALL aka CITY OF GOD: $2,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · ReligionLEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyColumbus Rescue Mission: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$87,780Human Services$25,200Housing & Shelter$14,900International$9,460Religion$8,650Philanthropy$8,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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 budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $20,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $14,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Rescue Mission: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $5,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $5,460 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY AND ALL aka CITY OF GOD: $2,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH START INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD HORSES BUILDING CHAMPIONS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…United Way of Lincoln…First Interstate Banc…Theresa Farnsworth Wi…The Hampton Family Fo…Donlan FoundationKinder Porter Scott F…Jc & Jessie Seacrest …Cooper FoundationOrphan Grain Train IncEdward Jones Foundati…Renaissance Charitabl…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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