Washington · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,861 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($184,277). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $877k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Metropolitan Development Council does
Mission
Since 1964, the Metropolitan Development Council (mdc) has been dedicated to helping people remove themselves from poverty and become self-sufficient. Mdc's integrated housing, healthcare, employment, and education programs empower individuals and families to address the specific barriers that have prevented them from living healthy, stable lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educationemployment and trainingmdc offers low-income youth and adults an opportunity to find jobs inthe community. Services include case-management, barrier reduction, job readiness training and job placement. The educational opportunity center provides free educational navigation support to adults through career advising and exploration, education planning, assistance with financial aid forms and college applications and student loan default advocacy.mdc helps low-income and first generation college bound 9th through12th grade students graduate from high school and enroll in college.intensive academic support including: in classroom academic courses, tutoring, assistance in completing financial aid forms, servicelearning and leadership activities.tutoring, study skills development,education workshops and career exploration such as career day, jobshadowing, business speakers and campus visits. Parents and studentslearn about college admissions requirements, financial aid options andfinancial literacy.child and adult care food program ("cacfp") provides oversight andreimbursement dollars for nutritional meals served to children.
$2,481,530 spent12% of program spendingMedicalmdc provides low-income adults and families experiencing homeless health care services. Services include psychiatric assessment and treatment, and substance abuse treatment.acute medical detoxmdc provides inpatient acute medical detoxification (withdrawal management) to youth and adults experiencing physical withdrawal from alcohol and other drugs. Thirty-two beds are available at any given time.outpatient chemical dependencymdc provides assessment, outpatient and intensive outpatient servicesto individuals who meet medical necessity criteria to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
$4,347,801 spent$4,175,591 earned by the program22% of program spendingHousingmdc operates a continuum of affordable housing options for individualsand families who are coming out of homelessness or have lower incomes,many of whom experience disabilities. Apartments, duplexes, grouphomes and single family dwellings comprise the more than 340 units ofrental housing available from mdc, making it possible for 900individuals to be served each year. Mdc provides many specialized services to help stabilize these individuals and families. Mdc's continuum of care provides clients with housing placement and on-going services that best meet their needs. Professional case management services are tailored to fit the needs of each tenant in reducing barriers to permanent housing and self-sufficiency.homeless prevention programs include utility assistance through the lowincome housing energy and assistance program ("liheap") in partnershipwith the state and local utility companies; conservation of energy usethrough small repair and weatherization measures added to homes in thecity of tacoma. Due to the worldwide pandemic outbreak oif covid-19, mdc has expanded it's liheap assistance program to include rental assistance programs to assist clients with eviction…
$13,351,665 spentof which $6,393,605 as grants$2,947,826 earned by the program66% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,180,996.
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 2022 to 2023, from $26M to $23M (−9%).
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 88% · 2018 90% · 2019 74% · 2020 63% · 2021 61% · 2022 61% · 2023 75% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Scott Schubert
CEO
Board chair
Connie Ladenburg
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $78k → $98k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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
62% 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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 41% — 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
20% of METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
96% of METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.9M on record — $20.7M federal, $224k state.
- Department of Education$18.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$224k
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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
- Parkland Family Vista LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: 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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,861 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($184,277). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $876,861 in grants to METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $184,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing