Minnesota · Nonprofit
Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities
Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,289 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $710k
- Net assets
- $627k
What Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities does
Mission
MACC makes collaboration real. We leverage the collective wisdom and power of our network of human services nonprofits to develop new structures and solutions in order to solve complex problems and build a more equitable society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (MACC) is a membership organization of more than 60 community-based human service organizations. The MACC network employs nearly 3,000 human service professionals in the metro area dedicated to strengthening our community. Each year, our organizations serve as economic multipliers who collectively invest over $380 million dollars into our community well-being, our residents' economic mobility, and their family stability. MACC provides our members a place learn from one another, share resources, and develop solutions to operational challenges that human service nonprofits share so that that members are able to focus on what they are best at - strengthening the communities they serve. MACC serves as a network hub, a vehicle for collective action, a provider of quality shared administrative services, a resource for knowledge sharing and learning, and serves as a facilitator of cooperative purchasing power. For over 25 years, MACC has created capacity for innovation by bringing together new partners, creating space for new ideas, and courageously collaborating to strengthen the human services ecosystem. The MACC network believes in…
$4,901,882 spent$5,378,475 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,901,882.
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 2019 to 2020, from $832k to $1.6M (+90%).
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 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 21% · 2020 24% · 2021 1% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Steven J Houtz
President & CEO
Board chair
Christine Brinkman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $253k → $25k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities’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
Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 76% · 2022 43% · 2023 60% — 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
14% of Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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 Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k 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
Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $710k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities
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 Minnesota
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
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 Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities: 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 Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities?
- Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,289 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $710,289 in grants to Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities?
- NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 10 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