Kentucky · Nonprofit
METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC
METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $346k
What Metals Innovation Initiative Inc does
Mission
The metals innovation initiative brings together state and local government, metals companies, universities, and economic and workforce development partners for the mission to make kentucky the destination for metals innovation by addressing industry challenges and opportunities in areas like talent and workforce development, recycling of raw materials, energy, technology innovation, and strategic communications about the metals manufacturing industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mi2 was founded to facilitate an ecosystem for metals innovation. Activities include facilitating ecosystem collaboration for metals-related precompetitive r&d, technology commercialization, talent and workforce development, information sharing, entrepreneurial activity and supply chain development. Current activities include: 1.) ecosystem building: outreach to build, maintain, and facilitate connection to a diverse metals ecosystem through events, meeting with members and partners organizations, and dissemination of information. Convening industry members set high-level priorities for precompetitive collaboration. Our board is comprised of executives from companies involved with mi2, as well as ecosystem partners from government, higher education, and non-government entities involved with our work. 2.) metals innovation ecosystem events: mi2 is lead organizer of the annual kentucky industry conference, focused on the manufacturing sector. We sponsor an annual nationwide innovation search for pressing problems and innovative solutions for the metals industry, as well as case studies of innovation implementations. We also organize other engagement events throughout the year for…
$825,462 spent$203,965 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $825,462.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $282k to $578k (+105%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 31% · 2024 23% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mike Buckentin
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC?
- METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METALS INNOVATION INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing