Metavivor Research and Support Inc
Middleton, WI · EIN 37-1578088. Reported 76 grants totalling $18.1M to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Metavivor Research and Support Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E70) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 9% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $250,000. Half of what it reported fell between $100,000 and $250,000; the smallest was $50,000 and the largest $900,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $1,200,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $1,150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $900,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $700,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $700,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $700,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $650,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Texas | Austin, TX | $650,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Anderson | Houston, TX | $550,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rosswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | Buffalo, NY | $500,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc | Tampa, FL | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lab Central Inc | Cambridge, MA | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nyu Langone Health System | New York, NY | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $450,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| University Texas A&m | College Station, TX | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas City, KS | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Methodist Hospital | Houston, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ut Health Texas Mcgovern | Houston, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ut Southwestern Health Systems | Dallas, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wake Forest University | Winstonsalem, NC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City University of New York (cuny) at Hunter College | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CUNY | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark, NJ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southwestern Medical Foundation | Dallas, TX | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spg Hbr, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc | Tampa, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philadelphia University | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Purdue University Global Inc | West Lafayette, IN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies | La Jolla, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation | Woodland Hls, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Nebraska Medical Center | Omaha, NE | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | Madison, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
12 of 54 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $4,050,000 | $100,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $5,750,000 | $250,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $4,600,000 | $450,000 |
| 2024 | 11 | $3,750,000 | $200,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
18% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $250,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Metavivor Research and Support Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 7780 Elmwood Ave 130, Middleton, WI, 53562.
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