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The Metzger Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Health$630kEducation$287kFood & Nutrition$50kHuman Services$46kPhilanthropy$22kReligion$15kAnimals$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE SIMPLE WISH$3,500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $20k → 11%WE'VE GOT FRIENDS: $5k → 12%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $5k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $5k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $4k → 11%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

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CA
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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 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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Polybio Research Foundation Inc

We are a 501(c)3 transforming how complex chronic conditions like longcovid, me/cfs & post treatment lyme disease are studied, diagnosed, and treated. polybio was founded by three scientists with complementary expertise (neuroscience,…

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5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
The Center for Medical Technology Policy Inc

To develop a health care system where patients, clinicians, health care policymakers, and payers have the evidence they need to make informed health decisions.

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10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Openbiome Foundation Inc

Openbiome's mission is to expand patient access to microbiome therapies and fuel scientific discoveries that shape the future of health.

Health
12
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overlook Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mariano Rivera Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $600,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATION+4 more — $42,000 · Health+4 moreTHE GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC — $200,000 · OtherTHE GREENWOOD SCHOOL INCINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY — $25,000 · OtherINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRYORATORY PREP SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherORATORY PREP SCHOOLVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS-GIFTS UNDER 5000 — $16,500 · Other+7 more — $47,000 · Other+7 moreCornell University — $25,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $33,500 · Human ServicesWEVE GOT FRIENDS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMOVE FOR HUNGER INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionROCHESTER HOPE FOR PETS — $7,000 · AnimalsMARIANO RIVERA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$642,000Other$313,500Education$55,000Human Services$38,500Food & Nutrition$15,000Animals$7,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $33,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCornell University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVE FOR HUNGER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FIBROMYALGIA ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetROCHESTER HOPE FOR PETS — $7,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMARIANO RIVERA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Metzger 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.

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no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Morristown-Beard School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

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 24 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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