Oregon · Nonprofit
Metropolitan Family Service
Metropolitan Family Service (Oregon) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,521,798 to it, the largest being United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ($1,620,054). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Metropolitan Family Service does
Mission
The agency focuses its efforts on three key community initiatives: 1. Strengthening early childhood development and building youth success through collaboration and innovation. 2. Developing and promoting effective approaches to community-based health and wellness throughout the lifespan. 3. Advancing individual and family economic well-being.additionally, collaboration and partnership with other organizations is necessary and vital. On a programmatic level, the agency partners with hundreds of organizations at 30+ service sites. It is the agencys deep commitment to collaboration and partnership that is helping us work toward truly transforming the programming and systems that we need to create long-term, larger-scale change in our community.since 1950, weve joined forces with key community partners from education, healthcare, business and government to create opportunities that change lives and make communities stronger. Our commitment to low-income children, families and older adults
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2024 the agency served 24,000 clients. Of those, 69 percent are clients of color. The agency:helps youth and families living in low resourced communities via community school programs, school-based intergenerational tutoring/mentoring, and family engagement activites. The agency has created stable partnerships with over 25 schools across 7 districts over the past 19 years.supports families via early childhood learning/kindergarten-readiness programs; parenting, health and economic empowerment programs. This year approximately 250 families were served.collaborates with culturally-specific partners to provide in-depth wraparound services to families via the albina-rockwood promise neighborhood initiative. This year approximately 90 families were served.provided more than 24,000 rides to older and disabled adults.results of our economic empowerment program: services are integrated across core programs to enhance results for financial stability & other social service programs. The agency helped boost family income by an average of $1,774 last year by connecting families to earned income tax credits. This year, 400 people were served through economic empowerment…
$11,445,374 spentof which $645,817 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,445,374.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.5M to $8.9M (+18%).
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 57% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 68% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 83% · 2024 83% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Metropolitan Family Service’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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.
Chief executive
Judy Applegate Strand
CEO
Board chair
Kevin Spooner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $793k → $564k.
8 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest First Growth Children & Family Charities Dba Classic Wines Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Metropolitan Family Service raised.
From the IRS filings of Metropolitan Family Service’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 Family Service has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
71% 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 Family Service.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 43% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 31% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
44% of Metropolitan Family Service's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
70% of Metropolitan Family Service's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Family Service has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Metropolitan Family Service receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.4M on record — $1.3M federal, $12.0M state.
- Department of the Treasury$1.3M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$3k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$4.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3.5M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$2.4M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$1.1M
- DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$408k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$285k
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 Family Service
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Family Service: 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 Family Service?
- Metropolitan Family Service (Oregon) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,521,798 to it, the largest being United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ($1,620,054). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Metropolitan Family Service have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $6,521,798 in grants to Metropolitan Family Service, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metropolitan Family Service?
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette is the largest funder on record, with $1,620,054 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metropolitan Family Service find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 58 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