Colorado · Nonprofit
METRO CARING
METRO CARING (Colorado) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,693,093 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,461,110). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 150
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Metro Caring does
Mission
Metro Caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)Metro Caring, in partnership with our community, understands that hunger stems from systemic challenges shaping the daily realities of individuals and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy food access: through our free fresh foods market, we provide nutritious, culturally relevant foods. Food is receved through in-kind donations and purchases.
$8,797,869 spentof which $7,549,070 as grants84% of program spendingNutrition: through cooking clubs and health classes, our nutrition programs build community and sharpen skills to manage health conditions impacted by hunger, like diabetes and heart disease.
$444,699 spentof which $16,041 as grants4% of program spendingId procurement: we process requests for essential identification documents by providing free vouchers for state ids, driver's licenses, and birth certificates, redeemable at the dmv or other appropriate offices.
$183,043 spentof which $183,043 as grants2% of program spendingCommunity connection: our community connectors use their lived experience to create a welcoming, culturally relevant environment and link individuals and families to organizations and public benefits that meet their needs.
$698,834 spentof which $67,014 as grants7% of program spendingCommunity organizing: we partner with community leaders who have lived experience of hunger, offering high-quality training in leadership development, civic engagement, advocacy, media, and storytelling. Through this work, we support leaders in strengthening their skills, amplifying their voices, and creating lasting, meaningful change.
$405,979 spentof which $7,300 as grants4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,530,424.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $15M (+41%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 14%. 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $852k → $2.5M.
19 of 150 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 METRO CARING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 150 funders by total. 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
METRO CARING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
75% 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 METRO CARING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 39% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 31% — 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
35% of METRO CARING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
61% of METRO CARING'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 $5.7M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like METRO CARING
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pericarp Enterprise LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METRO CARING: 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 METRO CARING?
- METRO CARING (Colorado) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,693,093 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,461,110). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does METRO CARING have?
- IRS filings report 150 organizations giving $14,693,093 in grants to METRO CARING, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METRO CARING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,461,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METRO CARING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 150 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing