Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
METROLAB NETWORK INC
METROLAB NETWORK INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,322 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $403k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $222k
What Metrolab Network Inc does
Mission
Metrolab network is a non-profit that drives positive impact in communities by empowering collaboration between two critical public institutions: local government and universities. The challenges cities and counties face are complex, and to create transformative change metrolab brings together an ecosystem of research and doers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nsf civic innovation challenge: the civic innovation challenge is a research and action competition led by the national science foundation that aims to fund ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on community-identified priorities. Metrolab network serves as the outreach builder and community-of-practice organizer for the challenge.
$356,651 spent41% of program spendingPolicy development:metrolab's focus on developing policy and best practices for local governments includes two specific programs. First is data governance. Metrolab received support to workshop best practices in local government data government frameworks. We also are developing a local government r&d agenda: a way in which we can identify the research needs and knowledge gaps of cities and counties.
$97,992 spent11% of program spendingMobility coe program: for the past 19 months, metrolab network has been working with the university of california, los angeles, and other partners (including carnegie mellon university, the university of alabama, shared-use mobility center, and national renewable energy laboratory) on the federal highway administration's center of excellence on new mobility and automated vehicles (mobility coe). The award is supporting research on the impacts of new mobility technologies and highly automated vehicles on the evolving transportation system when deployed at scale.
$42,072 spent5% of program spendingOther member activities
$365,174 spentof which $445,092 as grants42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $861,889.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $870k to $423k (−51%).
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: 2019 16% · 2020 45% · 2021 97% · 2022 92% · 2023 49% · 2024 93% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of METROLAB NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Kathleen Burns
Executive director
Board chair
Daniel Correa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $45k → $98k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 METROLAB NETWORK 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
METROLAB NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 METROLAB NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of METROLAB NETWORK INC'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 $258k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
METROLAB NETWORK INC receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $758k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding METROLAB NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- National Science Foundation$3.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like METROLAB NETWORK 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METROLAB NETWORK INC?
- METROLAB NETWORK INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,322 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does METROLAB NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $758,322 in grants to METROLAB NETWORK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROLAB NETWORK INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROLAB NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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