Minnesota · Nonprofit
EAST METRO STRONG
EAST METRO STRONG (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,600 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $102k
What East Metro Strong does
Mission
Advocating for and improving public transit and sustainable transportation options to equitably improve quality of life, economic opportunity and climate resilience, for all east metro residents and businesses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ems led regional stakeholders in developing a vision for a regional carshare system. Ems worked with cities and community-based organizations (cbos) from around the region, as well as metro transit, to develop the plan. The resulting plan received formal endorsement from numerous municipal jurisdictions, cbos, metro transit, and local non-profit carshare operator hourcar. The vision formed the basis of the application by the city of saint paul for 48 million application to the federal government's climate pollution reduction grant program.
$40,000 spent$20,000 earned by the program21% of program spendingEms worked with the american lung association (ala) and with other local stakeholders to perform tasks to launch, operate, and expand a regional electric vehicle carshare service, the ev spot network. Accomplishments in 2024 included working with stakeholders to finish deploying the full set of chargers, and designing and implementing user surveys to learn how people used the service. Half of users said that they used the ev spot network to get to medical care. Three-quarters said that carshare allowed them to not own a car, saving substantial money at a time of financial stress. Drawing on those and other measures, ems led development of lessons learned from the design and launch of the ev spot network, for use by other communities, locally as well as around the country.
$55,897 spent$30,769 earned by the program30% of program spendingCompleted "a vision for serving and connecting the red rock corridor." this vision was the result of work with cities, employers, and residents in south washington county to develop a new plan for serving growing transportation needs.
$32,574 spent$22,574 earned by the program17% of program spendingAll other programs
$60,265 spent$19,262 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $188,736.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $91k to $109k (+20%).
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: 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of EAST METRO STRONG’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
EAST METRO STRONG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
“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
94% of EAST METRO STRONG's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST METRO STRONG: 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 EAST METRO STRONG?
- EAST METRO STRONG (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,600 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST METRO STRONG have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $133,600 in grants to EAST METRO STRONG, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST METRO STRONG?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST METRO STRONG 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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