How much did THE METCALF FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE METCALF 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

benevolent

2019

benevolent

2020

—

2021

christian

2022

—

2023

—

2024

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

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $6k
$10k–50k1 grant · $27k

$2,107

Median grant

States reached

$694k

Total assets

Largest grants

MY POSSIBILITIES$27,000
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY$2,107
ST AGNES ACADEMY$2,000
THE COVENANT KNIGHTS SCHOOL$2,000

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 (FY19–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$214k · 9 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$214k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+60%

Still filing today

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationReligionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

MP
MY POSSIBILITIES
6× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +20%
TC
THE COVENANT KNIGHTS SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +71%
CA
CHILD ADVOCATES INC
3× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +12%

Funded once

SL
ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $6k
BI
BUCKNER INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +129%
ST
ST TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +60%

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.

The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school.

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Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child.

Education

Covenant Christian School

To provide education in a Christ-centered environment.

Education

St Peter Catholic

To educate students in Catholic intellectual tradition and prepare them for high demand careers.

Education

Colleyville Covenant Christian

The Christian education of children ages three through eighteen

Education

Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education

Veritas Christian Acadamy of Houston

Veritas Christian Academy of Houston is an independent Christian school in the classical tradition that prepares students for lives of service and learning through academic excellence character development biblical literacy and intentional…

Education

The Compass School of Texas

We believe in inquiry-based learning and bringing real-world experiences into the classroom to help students draw connections between lessons and how they can impact the world.

Education

Timothy Christian Schools

Develop academically prepared Christian disciples who embrace Christ's call to transform the world

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Covenant Christian Schools of Indianapolis Inc

Christ-centered education equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership & service.

Education

The Cambridge School of Dallas

The cambridge school of dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.

Education

North Texas Christian Foundation

As the North Texas affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prince of Peace Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Texas a&M Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$123,585Education$81,262Crime & Legal$30,000Religion$14,000Human Services$6,000Health$1,000

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 THE METCALF 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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: ST LUKES METHODIST CHURCH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 746065646 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 ST LUKES METHODIST CHURCH, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 22 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Metcalf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Metcalf 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.

THE METCALF 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Metcalf Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE METCALF 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Metcalf Foundation?

More from the funding graph