Connecticut · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC
METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,544 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC ($269,103). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $910k
- Net assets
- $-703686
What Metropolitan Bridgeport Inc does
Mission
Metropolitan Bridgeport Inc. Ceased providing educational services (see schedule o)prior to the sale of its assets, Metropolitan Bridgeport Inc (fka university of bridgeport) (the university) offered career oriented undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and programs for people seeking personal and professional growth. The university promoted academic excellence, personal responsibility, and commitment to service. Distinctive curricula in an international, culturally diverse, supportive learning environment prepared graduates for life and leadership in an increasingly interconnected world. The university is independent and non-sectarian.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On may 21, 2021, the university of bridgeport sold substantially all of its assets to goodwin university inc. (goodwin), a connecticut nonstock corporation, the new university of bridgeport, inc. (new ub), a connecticut nonstock corporation and subsidiary of goodwin university, and sound education, llc, (paier college) a connecticut limited liability company formed by paier college. (see schedule o)in order to avoid the confusion that the new university of bridgeport and the university of bridgeport might cause, and to emphasize that the new university of bridgeport would continue to offer most of the programs that the university of bridgeport had offered, the university of bridgeport changed its name to Metropolitan Bridgeport Inc. On june 28, 2021.the ongoing mission of Metropolitan Bridgeport Inc. Consists of the conduct of wind down operations that are the responsibility of old ub which were not assumed by goodwin, inclusive of phasing out certain retirement plans, settling certain liabilities, processing and paying unemployment benefits incurred by employees of old ub, ensuring compliance with certain tax filings, phasing out of remaining perkins loans, transferring contracts…
$63,572 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,572.
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 2020 to 2021, from $128M to $20M (−84%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $72k.
11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 BRIDGEPORT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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 BRIDGEPORT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
98% 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 BRIDGEPORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 44% · 2019 19% · 2020 26% · 2021 41% · 2022 32% · 2023 20% — 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
36% of METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $413k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 BRIDGEPORT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 BRIDGEPORT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC?
- METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,544 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC ($269,103). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $909,544 in grants to METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC?
- DELTA DENTAL OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $269,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Metropolitan Bridgeport →
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 22 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