Funding search · EIN 351995120 · Indianapolis, IN
Met Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 356
- grants reported
- $4.2M
- total given
- 2022–2025
- filing years
- $5,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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5 grants matching “fencing” · $196,572
- $100,572
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations (8k for desert fence busters only)
- $85,000
Tucson Audubon Society · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations - 10k for fence capping, only
- $1,000
Friends of Ironwood Forest · Tucson, AZ · 2025
Desert fence busters program work only
- $5,000
Friends of Ironwood Forest · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Fence busters only
- $5,000
University Club Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
Parking lot repairs - iron fence - in honor of bo elder
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Second Presbyterian Church6 grants · $413,578
- Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection4 grants · $311,424
- Tucson Audubon Society4 grants · $270,571
- Arizona Land and Water Trust4 grants · $270,000
- Regis Jesuit High School6 grants · $145,000
- National Sports Center for the Disabled4 grants · $141,000
- Williams College4 grants · $110,000
- Park Tudor School9 grants · $104,000
- Wabash College4 grants · $100,000
- Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence4 grants · $80,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 356 grants.
- $161,571
Second Presbyterian Church · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $100,572
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations (8k for desert fence busters only)
- $99,572
Second Presbyterian Church · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
General operations
- $85,000
Arizona Land and Water Trust · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations
- $85,000
Tucson Audubon Society · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations - 10k for fence capping, only
- $85,000
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection · Tucson, AZ · 2024
General operations; 8k for desert fencebusters only
- $70,332
Second Presbyterian Church · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General operations
- $65,852
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection · Tucson, AZ · 2023
General operations
- $65,571
Tucson Audubon Society · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Cavity-nesting birds: applied conservation & research - $5k olya's pipe capping program
- $65,000
Arizona Land and Water Trust · Tucson, AZ · 2024
General operations
- $60,000
Arizona Land and Water Trust · Tucson, AZ · 2023
General land and water protection mission of the organization
- $60,000
Tucson Audubon Society · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Conservation advocacy
- $60,000
Arizona Land and Water Trust · Tucson, AZ · 2022
General operations
- $60,000
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection · Tucson, AZ · 2022
General operations
- $60,000
Tucson Audubon Society · Tuscon, AZ · 2022
General operations
- $50,000
United Way of Central Indiana · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
General operations
- $50,000
United Way of Indianapolis · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General operations
- $45,000
Regis Jesuit High School · Aurora, CO · 2025
General operations
- $40,000
National Sports Center for the Disabled · Golden, CO · 2025
General operations
- $39,603
Second Presbyterian Church · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
General operations
- $38,500
Park Tudor Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $37,000
National Sports Center for the Disabled · Denver, CO · 2024
General operations
- $35,000
United Way of Central Indiana · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $32,500
Regis Jesuit High School · Aurora, CO · 2022
General operations
- $32,000
National Sports Center for the Disabled · Denver, CO · 2023
General operating
- $32,000
National Sports Center for the Disabled · Denver, CO · 2022
General operations
- $30,000
Food Bank of the Rockies · Denver, CO · 2025
General operations
- $30,000
St Marys Academy for the Sisters of Loretto · Englewood, CO · 2025
General operations
- $30,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2025
General operations
- $30,000
Park Tudor School · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
General operations
- $30,000
Regis Jesuit High School · Aurora, CO · 2024
General operations
- $30,000
St Mary'S Academy · Englewood, CO · 2024
General operations - tuition assistance
- $30,000
United Way of Central Indiana · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
General operations
- $30,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2024
Alumni fund
- $27,000
Pentwater Historical Society · Pentwater, MI · 2025
General operations
- $25,123
Cross Point Community Church · Nashville, TN · 2025
General operations
- $25,000
Wabash College · Crawfordsville, IN · 2025
General operations
- $25,000
Wabash College · Crawfordsville, IN · 2024
General operations - annual fund
- $25,000
Park Tudor School · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
General operations
- $25,000
Regis Jesuit High School · Aurora, CO · 2023
General operations
- $25,000
Second Presbyterian Church · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
Annual gift
- $25,000
St Mary'S Academy · Englewood, CO · 2023
Tuition assistance
- $25,000
Wabash College · Crawfordsville, IN · 2023
Annual fund
- $25,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2023
General operations
- $25,000
Park Tudor School · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General operations
- $25,000
St Mary'S Academy · Englewood, CO · 2022
General operations
- $25,000
Wabash College · Crawfordsville, IN · 2022
General operations
- $25,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2022
General operations
- $22,623
Challenge Foundation · Englewood, CO · 2025
General operations
- $20,123
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2025
General operations
- $20,000
Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General operations
- $20,000
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains · Denver, CO · 2025
General operations
- $20,000
Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operations
- $20,000
Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operations
- $20,000
Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operations
- $20,000
Penrod Arts Society · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General operations
- $17,500
Second Presbyterian Church · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
2023 pledge payments - cash flow advance
- $15,000
Colorado Public Television Inc Dba Pbs12 · Centennial, CO · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
Defenders of Wildlife · Washington, DC · 2025
Az programs, no salaries
- $15,000
Gonzaga University · Spokane, WA · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
National Parks Conservation Association · Washington, DC · 2025
Az programs only
- $15,000
Public Broadcasting of Colorado · Centennial, CO · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
Random Acts of Flowers · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
Rocky Mountain Public Media · Denver, CO · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
Wildearth Guardians · Santa Fe, NM · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
Wildlands Network Southwest · Salt Lake City, UT · 2025
General operations
- $15,000
Food Bank of the Rockies · Denver, CO · 2024
General operations
- $15,000
National Parks Conservation Association · Washington, DC · 2024
General operations - southwest region - az only
- $15,000
Food Bank of the Rockies · Denver, CO · 2023
General operations
- $15,000
National Parks Conservation Association · Washington, DC · 2023
General operations - southwest region - az use only
- $15,000
Food Bank of the Rockies · Denver, CO · 2022
General operations
- $15,000
National Parks Conservation Association · Washington, DC · 2022
Arizona project
- $15,000
Random Acts of Flowers · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General operations
- $15,000
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
General operations
- $15,000
Wildearth Guardians · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General operations
- $14,000
Friends of Tucson'S Birthplace · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations
- $13,832
Defenders of Wildlife · Washington, DC · 2022
Arizona program work
- $12,623
First Baptist Church of Indianapolis · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $12,500
Childrens Museum of Indianapolis Incorporated · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
Guild - second century capital campaign
- $12,500
Ymca of the Rockies · Centennial, CO · 2025
General operations
- $12,000
Northern Jaguar Project · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations
- $12,000
The Challenge Foundation · Englewood, CO · 2024
General operations
- $12,000
Wildlands Network Southwest · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Restoring the u.s. Borderlands region and northern mexico - az-nm-mexico program only - no salaries
- $11,000
University Club Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
General operations
- $10,500
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains · Denver, CO · 2024
General operations
- $10,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Cross Anchor Ministries · Greenwood, SC · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Ensworth School · Nashville, TN · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Humanity 360 · Tucson, AZ · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
League of Women Voters Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Love Broad Ripple · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Oceana County Community Foundation · Pentwater, MI · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Patagonia Area Resource Alliance · Patagonia, AZ · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
The University Club of Indianapolis Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
University of Portland · Portland, OR · 2025
General operations
- $10,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
General operations
- $10,000
Cross Point Community Church · Nashville, TN · 2024
General operations - general giving
- $10,000
Defenders of Wildlife · Washington, DC · 2024
Protecting endangered species & habitats in arizona - no salaries
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