New Jersey · Private foundation
RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN
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.
- $576k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 98
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 98
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k 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 | 74 | $571k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 98 | $591k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $356k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $370k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $338k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $307k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $311k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $325k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generator Inc | $972,550 | 9 | 22% |
| Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc | $287,405 | 9 | 9% |
| United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Lenox Meeting House Inc | $56,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $53,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $50,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Btv Ignite Inc | $49,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Project Home | $47,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Room to Grow National Inc | $41,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($901k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN
- How much does RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN give?
- RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN reported 75 grants totaling $576,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 98 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Community Improvement (22%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Generator Inc ($973k), Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc ($287k), United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc ($72k).
- Does RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN 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 RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN based?
- RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN is based in NJ.
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