How much did RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

greaterleaguewomen

2019

leagueroom

2020

greaterroom

2021

room

2022

miltonarlingtonstreetroom

2023

arlingtonpartnersroom

2024

musicberkshiresstyfood bankstockbridgeberkshirearlington

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k81 grants · $266k
$10k–50k17 grants · $239k
$50k–250k1 grant · $91k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

GENERATOR INC$91,000
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FDN$35,000
BTV IGNITE$32,500
MUSIC WORCESTER$15,500
YMCA of CENTRAL MA$15,000
PROJECT HOME$14,000
SCHUYKILL RIVER PARK FUND$14,000
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH$12,500
MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF THE BERKSHIRES$10,300
WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC STY$10,000
VT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ENG$10,000
W STOCKBRIDGE HIST SOCIETY$10,000
OLIN COLLEGE$10,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
CASA PROJECT WORCESTER CTY$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.1M · 93 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

93 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+33%

Still filing today

44%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

GI
GENERATOR INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $898k · revenue +65%
BC
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +289%
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB
8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +32%

Funded once

VW
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN
one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +24%
PT
PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +52%
FH
FARMING HOPEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +233%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter

Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit utility whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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Vermont Humanities Council

Connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities.

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Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy (continues in sched o)(continued) solutions the world needs.

Environment

Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library.

Education

Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

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Volunteer Lawyers Project

Volunteer lawyers project increases access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Engaging local business leaders in governmental and philanthropic activities, connecting and educating its members, and providing a forum for addressing the needs of the cambridge, massachusetts business community.

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The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect and restore rivers for people and wildlife. conservation work addresses flood resilience and outdoor recreation.

Human Services

Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

Promote understanding of the world and its people, places, and cultures through engagement

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New Hampshire Public Radio Inc

Nhpr is the state's only statewide radio news service. nhpr produces balanced, in-depth news and information in an effort to create a more informed public, one challenged and enriched by a deeper understanding and appreciation of state,…

Arts & Culture

Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Larkin Street Youth Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/74

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,491

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/73

Grantees still filing

54/73

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,737,975Community Improvement$945,550Arts & Culture$348,405Education$126,050Human Services$85,550Philanthropy$83,500Environment$76,875

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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT40× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · National Life Group Charitable · The Kelsey Trust · The Onda Foundation Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau · The University of Vermont Medical Center

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 organisation RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BTV IGNITE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474901478 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BTV IGNITE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph