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Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc

Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,126,937 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES NYC ($478,416). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$860k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$311k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc does

Mission

Provide counseling to tenants regarding their rights and obligations, legal assistance, avoid evictions and obtain housing repairs. Conduct educational outreach to the general public.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide counseling to tenants regarding their rights and obligations, legal assistance, avoid eviction and obtaining housing repairs. Conduct educational outreach to the general public.

    $586,012 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $586,012.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($425k) Expenses 100 ($334k) Net assets 100 ($146k)2021 Revenue 114 ($483k) Expenses 131 ($439k) Net assets 130 ($190k)2022 Revenue 105 ($446k) Expenses 128 ($428k) Net assets 143 ($208k)2023 Revenue 170 ($723k) Expenses 208 ($696k) Net assets 161 ($235k)2024 Revenue 202 ($860k) Expenses 235 ($784k) Net assets 214 ($311k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (202)Expenses (235)Net assets (214)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $216k to $411k (+91%).

$157k
$204k
$216k
$411k
$446k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 18% · 2021 40% · 2022 32% · 2023 71% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$91k
’20
$44k
’21
$18k
’22
$27k
’23
$76k
’24
2.7
months of
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.

Chief executive

Darius Gordon

Chief Executive Officer

Board chair

Kenny Schaeffer

Secretary and acting chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

20202021202220232024
Listed76878
Joined·+5+2+3+1
No longer listed·6040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $272k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Met Council Research & Education Fund 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

Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc.

42%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 64% · 2021 59% · 2022 51% · 2023 32% — 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

43% of Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

97% of Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

VT
NY
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Met Council Research & Education Fund 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Met Council Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc?
Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,126,937 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES NYC ($478,416). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,126,937 in grants to Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc?
LEGAL SERVICES NYC is the largest funder on record, with $478,416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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