Minnesota · Nonprofit
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,480,248 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($875,525). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc does
Mission
Trellis (the Organization) assists individuals to age successfully and develops the capacity of communities to care for an aging population.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Funding to Community PartnersMAAA manages Older Americans Act funding and other federal and state funding that is awarded to community-based organizations that support older adults to live healthy and connected lives in their communities. The funding provides services such as home-delivered meals and group dining, caregiver support and respite care services, assisted transportation, health promotion, and chore and homemaker services. In 2025, 967,235 meals were provided in group settings and delivered to individuals in their homes; 17,337 units of counseling, support group, and respite services were provided to caregivers of older adults and grandparents raising grandchildren; 16,384 hours of chores and homemaker services, including 16 home modification projects were completed; 29,630 rides were given to older adults who need assistance getting around in the community. Awarded community-based organizations also provided opportunities for older adults and caregivers to engage in their community by attending plays, learning about legal services, gardening and other events. 1,048 older adults took steps to stay healthy, manage chronic conditions and prevent falls by taking an…
$12,211,732 spentof which $12,211,732 as grants64% of program spendingInformation and AssistanceIn partnership with the Minnesota Board on Aging, MAAA provides Minnesota Aging Pathways services in the Twin Cities metro area. During 2025, we had 34,864 points of contact with older adults and caregivers providing information and resources on Medicare, housing, transportation, financial services and other community supports.
$4,147,535 spent22% of program spendingJuniperThe Juniper network delivers evidence-based health and wellness classes to help Minnesotans improve their health and reduce disease and injury. The Juniper network is comprised of community organizations, healthcare organizations and class leaders. In 2025, Juniper completed 154 classes with 2,847 participants.
$1,325,032 spentof which $48,334 as grants$47,957 earned by the program7% of program spendingSpecial AccessAwarded organizations provided 22,460 hours of individual and group services to overcome cultural/language barriers in accessing healthcare and other benefits such as forms assistance.
$297,352 spent2% of program spendingPension and Retirement RightsMAAA Pension and Retirement Rights has attorneys working to protect and promote the retirement security of workers, retirees and their families. In 2025, 790 clients were assisted with pension and retirement legal matters.
$287,339 spent$12,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingElderCare Development PartnershipMAAA's ElderCare Development Partnership team helps community organizations build capacity and sustainability so they can provide services that meet the needs of older adults. In 2025, ElderCare Development Partnership staff provided technical support to 42 organizations as they applied for grants serving older adults.
$529,093 spent3% of program spendingDementia Friendly Community InitiativesMAAA leads four dementia friendly community initiatives: ACT on Alzheimer's, Dementia Friends Minnesota, The Remember Project and Care Ecosystem. Each of these initiatives strives to make communities good places for people with cognitive impairment to live and thrive.In 2025, 1,594 individuals attended 10 events hosted by The Remember Project. 2,876 people became Dementia Friends by attending information sessions that help them understand how to be supportive of people with dementia and their caregivers. Staff developed a Dementia Friends curriculum designed for children in grades K-2. In collaboration with the University of Minnesota Dental School, the ACT on Alzheimer's program produced an advanced dementia friendly dental practice clinical training program to help dental practitioners better serve patients with dementia. To date, we have trained 230 dental staff and students with a one-hour training module thanks to partnerships with MN Dental Association and area dental schools. In 2025 MAAA launched Care Ecosystem: a free, phone-based program designed to help people living with dementia and their caregivers navigate care and supportive…
$328,921 spent2% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,127,004.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.9M to $7.9M (+63%).
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 99% · 2018 82% · 2019 97% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 92% · 2023 94% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dawn Simonson
President and CEO
Board chair
Vanne Owens Hayes
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $815k → $250.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Area Agency on Aging 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
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 Area Agency on Aging Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 83% · 2019 92% · 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
89% of Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Area Agency on Aging Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.4M
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 Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Innovations for Aging LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc: 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 Area Agency on Aging Inc?
- Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,480,248 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($875,525). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,480,248 in grants to Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $875,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc 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 15 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