New York · Nonprofit
Metro Community Development Corporation
Metro Community Development Corporation (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $387,793 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($184,940). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $517k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $388k
- Net assets
- $437k
What Metro Community Development Corporation does
Mission
To relieve the poor, the distressed and the under privileged and combat community deterioration in the Buffalo-Niagara region of New York State, by establishing and maintaining a faith-based community development corporation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Student Success Programs We provide homework assistance and recreational activities such as arts and crafts, Girl Scouts, girls and boys' mentoring programs and supervised sports, basketball and flag football. In addition to our after school program we also provide childcare when the youth have half-days, and days off from school: We call it "Vacation Camp." We also provide childcare when schools are closed due to weather, and when parents have to work. We gladly accept Department of Social Services vouchers for childcare.
$172,949 spent$23,296 earned by the program44% of program spendingCommunity Activities We have been a provider of summer camp for over 15 years. Our summer camp provides youth an exciting and action-packed 8 weeks of activities. The children are all enrolled in the Mayor's Reading Challenge and are encouraged to read, and compose an essay on each book they read. They participate in ELA and math classes to prevent summer time academic loss. They participate in creating science projects, go on nature walks and take weekly field trips. Through our collaboration with Cornell Cooperative Extension and their program, Healthy Eats New York, our youth are actively involved in developing healthy eating habits that decrease obesity and childhood diabetes.
$155,802 spentof which $103,950 as grants$4,813 earned by the program39% of program spendingSenior Services Our senior program offers a variety of activities for the active senior adult population. Along with our exercise programs, we offer educational workshops/seminars, day trips to areas of interest around and in Western New York and other social activities. All of our programs are suited to keep our senior adults healthy and engaged. The senior adults enjoy line dancing, painting, snacks, chat, stretch-band exercises, jewelry-making, Zumba, and Nintendo Wii.
$67,493 spent$1,184 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $396,244.
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 2021 to 2022, from $200k to $401k (+100%).
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: 2017 52% · 2018 59% · 2019 50% · 2020 24% · 2021 54% · 2022 45% · 2023 86% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Metro Community Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Candace Moppins
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $63k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Community Development Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 Community Development Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 Community Development Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 82% · 2022 49% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of Metro Community Development Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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 Metro Community Development Corporation's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Metro Community Development Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Metro Community Development Corporation
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Metro Community Development Corporation: 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 Community Development Corporation?
- Metro Community Development Corporation (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $387,793 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($184,940). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Metro Community Development Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $387,793 in grants to Metro Community Development Corporation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metro Community Development Corporation?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $184,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metro Community Development Corporation 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.
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 13 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