Vermont · Nonprofit
METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC
METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $222k
What Metta Earth Institute Inc does
Mission
Metta earth institute is an educational retreat center integrating contemplative practice, deep ecology, regenerative food systems, and social activism to create resilient community.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Metta earth institute, inc. (mei) is a small non-profit, tax exempt, 501c3 educational, retreat center in lincoln, vermont. Metta earth institute offers retreats, trainings, programs, workshops, and consultations to integrate: contemplative practices such as yoga and meditation ecological, sustainable community life ways wilderness awareness and ways to reconnect with nature creation of sanctuaries for communication, art, soul & psyche. Metta earth institute is a place to explore solutions for a global shift of consciousness supporting the revitalization of a care based society and a rejuvenation of nature and earth. Mei is hosted on acres of fields, pastures, and forest surrounded by a bowl of mountains. The land also supports a biodynamically oriented, organic farm and garden with a small csa, a few milking shorthorn grass-fed, hand milked cows, a small, growing flock of icelandic sheep, heritage breed chickens, orchards, the metta earth main house with kitchen, dining, library, bathing, laundry, yoga room, and bedrooms, greenhouse, a post and beam barn, 4 yurts, 4 wall tents, a new net zero, carbon neutral elder house, and energy systems powered by solar, wood, and the work of…
$44,106 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,106.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $20k to $212k (+970%).
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.
75% of METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $35k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of METTA EARTH INSTITUTE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
74% of METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,054 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like METTA EARTH INSTITUTE 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC?
- METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $61,000 in grants to METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METTA EARTH INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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