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RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN

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.

$596k
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$1.6MCommunity Improvement$949kArts & Culture$413kHuman Services$172kEducation$159kEnvironment$130kEmployment$63kHealth$36kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$880k
02FY2024 · 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
15
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENERATOR INC$91,000
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FDN$35,000
BTV IGNITE$32,500
MUSIC WORCESTER$15,500
YMCA of CENTRAL MA$15,000
SCHUYKILL RIVER PARK FUND$14,000
PROJECT HOME$14,000
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH$12,500
MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF THE BERKSHIRES$10,300
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
VT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ENG$10,000
MA AUDOBON SOCIETY$10,000
W STOCKBRIDGE HIST SOCIETY$10,000
WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC STY$10,000
CASA PROJECT WORCESTER CTY$10,000
02The need
03

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, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $14k → 22%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $4k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $14k → 22%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $700 → 7%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $3k → 10%ROOM TO GROW: $6k → 16%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $700 → 7%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $2k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 16%SPECTRUM YOUTH FAMILY SVCS: $6k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH FAMILY SVCS: $5k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $5k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $5k → 10%THE JANET MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH FAMILY SVCS: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH FAMILY SVCS: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $4k → 10%THE JANET MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $4k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $3k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $2k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $2k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

VT
WA
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
AR
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 87 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

87 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
41

Total granted

$2.6M
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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 +41%
  • BC
    BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +218%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • VW
    VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +46%
  • PT
    PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +28%
  • FH
    FARMING HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +121%

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.

1
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

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

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2
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
Alliance for a Better Vermont

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

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6
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal
7
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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9
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.

Employment
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Public Library OperationsCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way AffiliatesYmca Youth Development
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/106
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,459

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.

04the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 178 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/103
Grantees still filing
67/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,481,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION I…UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $66,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $32,500 · PhilanthropyGENERATOR INC — $897,550 · Community ImprovementGENERATOR INCBTV IGNITE INC — $34,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $17,000 · Community ImprovementOLIN COLLEGE — $55,000 · OtherOLIN COLLEGELAUNCH VT — $39,000 · OtherLEXINGTON COMMUNITY FARM — $36,500 · OtherVT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ENG — $35,000 · OtherSEABA — $34,000 · Other+113 more — $802,650 · Other+113 moreBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $252,405 · Arts & CultureBURLINGTON…SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $26,500 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE …VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD — $23,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT JO…MUSIC WORCESTER INC — $18,500 · Arts & CultureVERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $16,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $76,000 · Arts & Culture+12 morePROJECT HOME — $33,250 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $31,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $26,100 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Family Room — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHANGING PERSPECTIVES — $6,500 · Human Services+7 more — $21,800 · Human ServicesWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $44,150 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $42,000 · EducationKENYON COLLEGE — $24,000 · EducationTHE CURTIS FUND INC — $22,000 · EducationUNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC — $18,000 · Education+5 more — $9,000 · EducationAppalachian Mountain Club — $46,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $39,625 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $23,375 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $7,500 · Environment+2 more — $3,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$1,580,000Community Improvement$948,550Other$1,002,150Arts & Culture$412,905Human Services$171,650Education$159,150Environment$129,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,481,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetGENERATOR INC — $897,550 over 8y, 22% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $252,405 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $66,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $46,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $44,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $39,625 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBTV IGNITE INC — $34,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $33,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $29,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $26,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $26,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room — $25,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $23,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD — $23,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CURTIS FUND INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY — $20,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC — $18,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $16,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $16,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC — $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC — $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEST STOCKBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC — $9,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LENOX MEETING HOUSE INC — $6,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHANGING PERSPECTIVES — $6,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GENERATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds BTV IGNITE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Janet Munt Family Room ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
  • Who funds THE CURTIS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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.

The Vermont Community…National Life Group C…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Morris & Bessie A…George W Mergens Foun…The Windham Foundatio…United Way of Northwe…The Waterwheel Founda…Antonio B and Rita M …The Argosy FoundationThe Onda Foundation I…Mascoma Bank Foundati…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT54.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN?

Find your warmest path to RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 178 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines