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The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$748k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$784kArts & Culture$442kRecreation & Sports$314kHuman Services$284kPhilanthropy$174kFood & Nutrition$168kHousing & Shelter$152kHealth$123kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $562k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$11,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY$50,000
LE MOYNE COLLEGE$50,000
THE REV THEATER CO$46,000
CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
SCHWEINFURTH MUSEUM ART CENTER$35,000
FINGER LAKES SPCA OF CENTRAL NY$35,000
AUBURN ALLIANCE CHURCH$28,000
AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER$25,000
E JOHN GAVRAS CENTER$25,000
STS PETER & JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH$23,000
FORT HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$20,700
AUBURN HOCKEY CLUB$20,500
AUBURN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$20,000
AUBURN YMCA - WEIU$20,000
TYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE$17,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOZAIC: $7k → 4%CAYUGA-SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $20k → 13%THE RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 13%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 53 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
24

Total granted

$2.6M
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+9%

Still filing today

62%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LM
    Le Moyne College
    4× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +4%
  • SL
    SEYMOUR LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $85k · revenue +71%
  • FH
    FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • AF
    AURORA FREE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -24%
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
Seymour Public Library District

Connect. engage. inspire. seymour library inspires a love of reading, learning, and discovery through individual growth and community connections in an engaging and welcoming environment.

Education
2
Canandaigua Cemetery Association

Woodlawn cemetery serves the community as an eternal resting place; commemorating the lives of those interred; conserving, restoring and sustaining the physical attributes, horticultural aspects, buildings and infrastructure of the…

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3
Discover Cayuga Lake Inc

Engage students, community members, and visitors in learning about the ecology and history of Cayuga Lake and its watershed and to inspire people to maintain these healthy environments for future generations.

Environment
4
Lyons Public Library

Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.

Education
5
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…

Health
6
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

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7
Cayuga Medical Center At Ithaca

Cayuga medical center will remain the region's leading hospital, healthcare provider, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. we empower our people and employ our capabilities to equitably…

Health
8
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
9
Utica Public Library

With over a century of service to the greater utica area, the library remains dedicated to providing information and learning experiences throughout our diverse community.

—
10
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
11
Pine Bush Area Public Library District

The mission is to gather organize, and make available a variety of materials and programs for recreation, information and education to meet the needs of its service area which includes the town of crawford and those portions of the town of…

Education
12
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cayuga County Community Health Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mozaic. 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

49 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. 49 of the 84 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · OtherTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCTHE REV THEATER CO: $146,000 · OtherTHE REV THEATER COAUBURN YMCA - WEIU: $130,500 · OtherAUBURN YMCA - WEIUSCHWEINFURTH MUSEUM ART CENTER: $105,000 · OtherSCHWEINFURTH MUSEUM ART CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherSEYMOUR LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherFAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $85,000 · OtherCAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $75,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 · OtherCALVARY FOOD PANTRY: $67,000 · OtherFORT HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $63,700 · Other+48 more: $828,350 · Other+48 moreLe Moyne College: $175,000 · EducationLe Moyne CollegeWELLS COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationWELLS COLLEGEAUBURN SPORTS BOOSTERS INC: $50,750 · EducationAUBURN SPORTS BOOS…TYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE INC: $50,400 · EducationTYBURN ACADEMY OF …AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationAUBURN EDUCATION F…PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $28,000 · EducationPEACHTOWN ELEMENTA…BEREA COLLEGE: $27,500 · EducationBEREA COLLEGEMERCYWORKSINCORPORATED: $27,000 · EducationMERCYWORKSINCORPOR…AURORA FREE LIBRARY: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $9,500 · EducationAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNICKS RIDE 4 FRIENDS INC: $48,100 · Arts & CulturePERFORM 4 PURPOSE INC: $41,300 · Arts & CultureCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSeward House Museum: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $174,000 · PhilanthropyAUBURN HOCKEY CLUB INC: $65,800 · Recreation & SportsUNION SPRINGS SOCCER CLUB INC: $37,000 · Recreation & SportsAUBURN LACROSSE BOOSTERS INC: $21,644 · Recreation & SportsPORT BYRON LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFINGER LAKES SPCA OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $60,000 · AnimalsKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc: $37,500 · Food & NutritionMORAVIA HOPE PANTRY INC: $14,170 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,910,550Education$488,150Arts & Culture$216,400Philanthropy$174,000Recreation & Sports$134,444Animals$60,000Food & Nutrition$51,670

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLe Moyne College: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $174,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetTHE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSEYMOUR LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetFAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $85,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC: $75,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN HOCKEY CLUB INC: $65,800 over 4y, 17% of budgetFORT HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $63,700 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINGER LAKES SPCA OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $60,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetAUBURN SPORTS BOOSTERS INC: $50,750 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetTYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE INC: $50,400 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC CAYUGA CO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNICKS RIDE 4 FRIENDS INC: $48,100 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPERFORM 4 PURPOSE INC: $41,300 over 3y, 16% of budgetAUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCAYUGA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $37,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetUNION SPRINGS SOCCER CLUB INC: $37,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetTRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $28,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYWORKSINCORPORATED: $27,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $26,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetARISE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN LACROSSE BOOSTERS INC: $21,644 over 2y, 26% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA FREE LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCAYUGA-SYRACUSE PRESBYTERY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC DBA WESTMINSTER MANOR: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOWASCO WATERSHED LAKE ASSOC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBOYLE SENIOR CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMORAVIA HOPE PANTRY INC: $14,170 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetSEYMOUR LIBRARY: $12,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFOURTOWN FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPORT BYRON LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CAYUGA CO INC: $9,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOZAIC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRUTH ALIVE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC: $4,100 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKANEATELES EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 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.

  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAYUGA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEYMOUR LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAATZ-CROFUT HOME FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FINGER LAKES SPCA OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN SPORTS BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TYBURN ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC CAYUGA CO ↗
  • Who funds NICKS RIDE 4 FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds PERFORM 4 PURPOSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAYUGA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds King Ferry Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNION SPRINGS SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPORTATION PROJECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MERCYWORKSINCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW HOUSE INC ↗

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.

De French Foundation …Fred L Emerson Founda…Central New York Comm…Columbian Foundation …Allyn Family Foundati…The Cayuga Foundation…JM McDonald Foundatio…United Way of Cayuga …The John Ben Snow Fou…The Dr Joseph F Karpi…The Schwartz Family F…Jim and Juli Boeheim …
De French Foundation IncNY83.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: De French Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Columbian Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Cayuga Foundation Pfdn · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · United Way of Cayuga County Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation · The Schwartz Family Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc

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 Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 84 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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