Minnesota · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY
ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,903,015 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,620,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $950k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Alliance for Metropolitan Stability does
Mission
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression and advance our collective liberation. We envision a vibrant region where growth and development decisions, policies, practices, and investments are centered in the needs and expertise of low-wealth people and black, indigenous, immigrant, and people of color; historical harms are addressed; and our healing, belonging, and prosperity are prioritized in decisions about our current and future communities. The alliance engages dozens of other allied organizations in advancing our shared vision for an equitable region through: --coalition organizing: we organize coalitions that cross the boundaries of race, culture, geography and issues to advance equity and justice. We use an inside/outside strategy, building strong and effective allies within systems as w
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Transit equity: the alliance is a member of the coalition for clean transportation, which envisions a future where all minnesotans have equitable access to clean transportation options that promote health and connection for all. We passed through significant grant funds to partners in the cct work in 2024 to ensure the coalition was well resourced to advance our shared goals. The cct works to eliminate minnesota's transportation-related climate emissions through the increased adoption and availability of sustainable and equitable electrification options, centering bipoc and under-resourced communities who disproportionately bear the impact of climate change, air pollution, and experience high rates of mobility injustice. In 2024, the cct led successful advocacy for the state's zero emission bus transition plan, requiring metro transit to move toward a zero-emission fleet by 2050. The new law embeds environmental justice principles, accelerates electrification timelines, and ensures regular reporting to the legislature. Cct's amendments will prioritize clean transit investments in communities that face the highest pollution across the state.
$270,060 spentof which $125,000 as grants30% of program spendingRegional equtiy project: through the regional equity project, the alliance builds and convenes coalitions that advance equity in the twin cities region. Our regional equity work is comprised of multiple bodies of work, including the business resource collective and equitable development principles & scorecard. Additionally, it includes our internal culture-building work to internally live the values we espouse for our outward-facing work, and exploratory work for new initiatives - which in 2024 included an exploration into narrative. Business resource collective (brc): the business resource collective is a coalition of community development and wealth-building organizations that envisions a minnesota where thriving bipoc-owned businesses build and sustain the culture, wealth, and economic vitality of our communities. In 2024, the brc worked with deed to assess and map the small business ecosystem to identify the strengths and gaps of the ecosystem and recommend strategies to best meet the needs of bipoc small businesses and entrepreneurs. Equitable development principles & scorecard: the alliance convenes an equitable development principles & scorecard practitioners table formed…
$199,539 spentof which $3,000 as grants$10,000 earned by the program23% of program spendingBlue line coalition: the alliance convenes and provides the lead staff support for the blue line coalition (blc), which represents bipoc, immigrant, and low-wealth communities organizing for climate justice, equitable transit access, housing stability, and other community benefits along the metro blue line lrt extension route, including the bipoc-majority communities of north minneapolis, robbinsdale, brooklyn center, and brooklyn park. The alliance is building the blc's collective capacity to organize our communities to maximize use of the blue line lrt extension once built by ensuring it is created with community needs and priorities at the center. We have secured the resources to do this by successfully advocating for an anti-displacement prosperity program board fund to support communities during and after construction. Last year, we passed legislation and secured 10 million in state funding to establish the fund. The alliance chairs the committee that will distribute these funds and has supported development of the initial rfp for eligible projects that will protect vulnerable communities and advance our communities' climate, health, housing, economic mobility, and job…
$164,585 spent19% of program spendingAll other programs.
$251,636 spent$21,893 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $885,820.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.3M (+52%).
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: 2020 6% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $78k → $443k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY’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
ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 46% · 2019 40% · 2020 39% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY: 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 ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY?
- ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,903,015 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,620,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,903,015 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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