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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.

$3.3M
Revenue FY2025
17
Funders on record
$750k
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($601k)2018 Revenue 102 ($3.9M) Expenses 105 ($3.9M) Net assets 114 ($684k)2019 Revenue 107 ($4.1M) Expenses 110 ($4.0M) Net assets 127 ($764k)2020 Revenue 50 ($2.0M) Expenses 45 ($1.7M) Net assets 175 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 58 ($2.3M) Expenses 42 ($1.5M) Net assets 294 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 59 ($2.3M) Expenses 56 ($2.1M) Net assets 328 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 71 ($2.7M) Expenses 74 ($2.7M) Net assets 334 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 88 ($3.4M) Expenses 88 ($3.2M) Net assets 360 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 86 ($3.3M) Expenses 91 ($3.3M) Net assets 364 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (91)Net assets (364)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$205k
17
$82k
18
$80k
19
$286k
20
$717k
21
$206k
22
$36k
23
$158k
24
$19k
25
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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).

21%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

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.

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

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.

MA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 17 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 COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO)

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

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 24%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

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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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 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.

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 17funders 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