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The Metzger Family Foundation at a glance

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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
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE SIMPLE WISH$3,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
NJ
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overlook Foundation; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $600,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATION+4 more: $42,000 · Health+4 moreTHE GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · OtherTHE GREENWOOD SCHOOL INCORATORY PREP SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherORATORY PREP SCHOOLINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $25,000 · OtherINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRYVARIOUS 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 · AnimalsMORNINGSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$642,000Other$313,500Education$55,000Human Services$38,500Food & Nutrition$15,000Animals$7,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER HOPE FOR PETS: $7,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMORNINGSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMARIANO RIVERA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Metzger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Metzger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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