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METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON

METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,973,832 to it, the largest being MBHP OFFICE CORPORATION ($1,445,197). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$406M
Revenue FY2025
43
Funders on record
$7.0M
Grants received
$26M
Net assets
30/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON has grown faster than half of the 14 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14 housing & shelter nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($148M) Expenses 100 ($148M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 107 ($158M) Expenses 109 ($160M) Net assets 87 ($10M)2019 Revenue 112 ($166M) Expenses 113 ($166M) Net assets 85 ($10M)2020 Revenue 122 ($180M) Expenses 122 ($181M) Net assets 77 ($9.3M)2021 Revenue 183 ($271M) Expenses 181 ($267M) Net assets 124 ($15M)2022 Revenue 314 ($464M) Expenses 314 ($464M) Net assets 118 ($14M)2023 Revenue 250 ($370M) Expenses 251 ($371M) Net assets 120 ($14M)2024 Revenue 243 ($359M) Expenses 239 ($353M) Net assets 175 ($21M)2025 Revenue 275 ($406M) Expenses 272 ($402M) Net assets 216 ($26M)
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Revenue (275)Expenses (272)Net assets (216)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 36 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$210k
17
$2.1M
18
$85k
19
$811k
20
$4.4M
21
$298k
22
$618k
23
$6.1M
24
$4.4M
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $505k → $1.1M.

11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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 BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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

METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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 METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON.

21%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 65% · 2019 45% · 2020 39% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 36%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

48% of METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
MN
NY
MA
RI
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON?
METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,973,832 to it, the largest being MBHP OFFICE CORPORATION ($1,445,197). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $6,973,832 in grants to METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON?
MBHP OFFICE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,445,197 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing