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The Metzler Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$505kHealth$41kHousing & Shelter$33kAnimals$31kReligion$30kPhilanthropy$29kArts & Culture$29kEducation$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AUSTIN ZOO$2,000
HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC$2,000
WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER$1,000
AUSTIN JUSTICE COALITION$1,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $76k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%COMFORT CASES INC: $4k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES: $3k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $50k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%COMFORT CASES INC: $1k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES: $3k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $50k → 9%AUSTIN JUSTICE COALITION: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%COMFORT CASES INC: $1k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES: $1k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $50k → 9%AYUDA: $4k → 14%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%T E K FOUNDATION CC INC: $1k → 12%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $8k → 9%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

MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MD
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$656k · 16 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$656k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $466k · revenue +67%
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • PP
    PENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -78%
  • SC
    SWEET CHARITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Austin Street Center

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…

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2
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
3
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
4
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

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…

Human Services
5
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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8
Lighthouse for the Homeless

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.

Human Services
9
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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10
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
11
Alice Paul House

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.

Human Services
12
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $466,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC+10 more: $58,250 · Human Services+10 moreOUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES: $30,000 · OtherOUR DAILY BREAD…SWEET CHARITIES OF HANOVER INC: $11,000 · OtherSWEET CHARITIES…SWEET CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherSWEET CHARITIESTHE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN CA…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC: $5,000 · OtherECHO: $4,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,000 · OtherAUSTIN ZOO INC: $9,000 · OtherAUSTIN ZOO INCUprise Circus: $4,000 · OtherHAMPDEN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $3,350 · Other+5 more: $8,500 · Other+5 morePENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC: $7,940 · PhilanthropyFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · EducationThe ROC Charlotte Inc: $2,500 · EducationST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $12,750 · AnimalsHOMEWARD BOUND ANIMAL RESCUE: $8,000 · AnimalsCENTRAL TEXAS PIG RESCUE: $1,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · Health
Human Services$524,250Other$98,850Philanthropy$32,940Education$27,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Animals$22,250Health$15,000

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 budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $466,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $12,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSWEET CHARITIES OF HANOVER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAUSTIN ZOO INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND ANIMAL RESCUE: $8,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC: $7,940 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES: $6,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll-Options: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAYUDA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPDEN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $3,350 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOW BIKE PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe ROC Charlotte Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS PIG RESCUE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAustin Justice Coalition: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

American Online Givin…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE9.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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