Missouri · Nonprofit
Metro Trans Umbrella Group
Metro Trans Umbrella Group (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,028 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($90,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $622k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $442k
What Metro Trans Umbrella Group does
Mission
To bring together the community of trans, non-binary, genderqueer, androgynous, intersex & our allies in the St. Louis metro area through community, visibility, advocacy, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Social and emotional support, resources, and referrals for trans and gender-expansive adult community members in need. Community Outreach drop-in hours are held weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with additional appointments available throughout the week. Includes a food and hygiene pantry with monthly delivery service, a free clothing closet, bus passes, peer counseling, community gathering space, and name change clinic support. Serving over 2,800 clients per year. The long-term goal is improved quality of life for community members through increased access to essential items, services, and social and emotional support.
$216,937 spent65% of program spendingInformational and cultural competency educational sessions offered to local organizations and businesses, with a long-term goal of making public spaces safer and more equitable for trans and gender non-conforming adults. Professional leadership development for majority trans and gender non-conforming staff and board. The Education Cohort is made up of community members who receive training to conduct their own educational sessions. Includes the quarterly FACES magazine, which features content written by community members and leaders.
$90,500 spent27% of program spendingCommunity events and the Transgender Memorial Garden. Throughout the year MTUG hosts gatherings that build connection and visibility, including Pride events, an annual trans prom, and a community picnic. MTUG also maintains the Transgender Memorial Garden, established in 2015 as the first memorial of its kind in the nation, a dedicated space to mourn transgender lives lost to violence and to celebrate transgender lives. The long-term goal is to strengthen community connection, visibility, and collective resilience.
$26,551 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $333,988.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $275k to $444k (+62%).
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.
100% of Metro Trans Umbrella Group’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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
June Choate
Executive Director
Board chair
Nokie Rae
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $8k → $110k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Trans Umbrella Group’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
Metro Trans Umbrella Group 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
87% 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 Trans Umbrella Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 73% · 2022 60% · 2023 45% — 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
60% of Metro Trans Umbrella Group's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
72% of Metro Trans Umbrella Group'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 $105k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 Trans Umbrella Group runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Metro Trans Umbrella Group
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Trans Umbrella Group: 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 Trans Umbrella Group?
- Metro Trans Umbrella Group (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,028 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($90,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Metro Trans Umbrella Group have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $374,028 in grants to Metro Trans Umbrella Group, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metro Trans Umbrella Group?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metro Trans Umbrella Group find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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