Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($102,150). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $255k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries Inc does
Mission
The mission of cooperative metropolitan ministries (cmm) is to mobilize congregations and communities across economic, religious, racial, and ethnic boundaries so that, in partnership, we can work more effectively for a just and peaceful society and for spiritual growth and interfaith understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interfaith youth initiative (ifyi): during the summer, the ifyi program brings together high school and college youth from different religious traditions to live and learn together, and to learn from one another, in the spirit of building interfaith understanding. Graduate theological students are leaders and mentors during the summer program and during follow-up programs throughout the year.
$75,250 spent79% of program spendingSpirituality and healing: through its ruah and other programs, cmm seeks to encourage dialogue and interfaith understanding, as well as transformative and creative forms and practices of spirituality in the context of the urgent realities of our world, through workshops, classes, retreats and other educational forums.
$11,920 spent13% of program spendingSocial justice: under the construct of "just peace", cmm leads and collaborates with other organizations in programs to promote social justice in many areas, including housing and homelessness, youth violence, under-employment, discrimination, and re-entry after incarceration. In 2015, cmm initiated a new program called "values over violence" which seeks, among other goals, to work with youth to choose non-violent ways of dealing with conflict.
$7,605 spent8% of program spendingThe purpose of boston bridges is to provide outstanding individuals the opportunity to develop sustained relationships with peers from different religious and cultural contexts, and to refine and deepen their leadership skills for service in a diverse society.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,775.
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 $177k to $113k (−36%).
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.
97% of COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Rahim Abrishamian
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $33k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES 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
COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 44% · 2022 95% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
58% of COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES 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 $108k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES 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 COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC?
- COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($102,150). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $254,501 in grants to COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $102,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOPERATIVE METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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