Massachusetts · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,082 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($156,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity Inc (Metco) does
Mission
To provide students with a strong, rich academic foundation that fosters the opportunity for children from boston and neighboring suburbs to develop a deeper understanding of each other in an integrated public school setting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Oversee all aspects of the online enrollment process from application to referral and enrollment. Provide in-person registration support to families that have been accepted into the metco program.
$2,406,020 spent100% of program spendingProvide college prep supports such as sat, financial aid assistance and college readiness workshops, in partnership with college institutions, and creating opportunities for students to partake in college tours throughout boston and massachusetts.
Coordinate the metco presents program, where metco community and/or constituents attend culturally relevant and thought-provoking performances that create opportunities for learning and meaningful dialogue between and among boston and suburban families.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,406,020.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $2.8M (+27%).
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 33% · 2018 32% · 2019 36% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 88% · 2023 86% · 2024 80% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Darnell Billings
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $300 → $112k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)’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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
41% 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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
100% of METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)'s grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k 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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO): 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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)?
- METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,082 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($156,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $750,082 in grants to METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO), 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)?
- LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $156,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) 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.
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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 17 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