· Private foundation
The Metzler Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BACKPACKS FOR LIFE | $3,940 |
| OTHER ONES FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| ROC CHARLOTTE INC | $2,500 |
| YELLOW BIKE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| AUSTIN ZOO | $2,000 |
| AUSTIN JUSTICE COALITION | $1,000 |
| WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $466k · revenue +67%
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +31%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- PPPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -78%
- SCSWEET CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
The only free day shelter in the area comprised of a collection of community agencies and service providers, all focused on a single mission: ending homelessness in tarrant county.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of alice paul house is to educate, advocate, and empower all victims/survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, other crime and juvenile offenders.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roc Charlotte Inc. 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.
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 21 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET CHARITIES OF HANOVER INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds All-Options ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds Uprise Circus ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BIKE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The ROC Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PIG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds T E K FOUNDATION CC INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Justice Coalition ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND BOOK BANK 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Metzler 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.
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.