Wisconsin · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC
METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,753 to it, the largest being MDRC ($638,650). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc does
Mission
To promote fair housing throughout the state of wisconsin by combating illegal housing discrimination and by creating and maintaining racially and economically integrated housing patterns.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fair housing services - provides complaint intake and investigative services to persons who allege violations of local, state, and federal fair housing laws. The organization conducts investigations into systemic forms of discrimination in the housing market and maintains a pool of volunteers who assist in fair housing enforcement activities. The organization received 225 housing discrimination complaints in 2024.
$963,134 spent$12,216 earned by the program47% of program spendingFair housing outreach and education program - provides presentations and seminars to community-based organizations, social service agencies, educational institutions, advocacy groups, neighborhood organizations, religious congregations, and the general public. In 2024, the organization conducted 83 fair housing presentations, reaching over 1,500 individuals. Over 230 housing providers attended the 25 training seminars mmfhc conducted in 2024; collectively, these individuals own or manage thousands of rental units. Outreach and education staff also conducted over 850 community outreach contacts, distributed more than 30,000 informational materials, and provided information and referral services to almost 500 callers with non-fair housing inquiries. Mmfhc staff conducted outreach and education activities and all of wisconsin's 72 counties in 2024.
$531,517 spent$13,120 earned by the program26% of program spendingInclusive communities program - provides technical assistance to community organizations, developers, and local policy makers on inclusionary housing policies and the promotion of racial and economic integration. The organization provides assistance with consumers' access to pro-integrative housing choices and conducts research, analysis, and documentation of fair and affordable housing opportunities and impediments. In 2024, inclusive communities staff produced new outreach materials highlighting the importance of housing consumers' fair housing rights and locational choices, participated in numerous housing advocacy coalitions, and worked toward the 2025 relaunch of mmfhc's opportunity mke housing mobility program.
$450,714 spentof which $180,000 as grants22% of program spendingFair lending program - promotes fair lending and foreclosure prevention and seeks to eradicate predatory lending practices and mortgage rescue scams. The organization monitors financial institutions' fair lending practices and community reinvestment act activities, and provides technical assistance and education for lenders, partner agencies, and the general public. Fair lending program staff attended over 160 community meetings and events in 2024.
$112,229 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,057,594.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $3.4M (+186%).
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 74% · 2018 65% · 2019 78% · 2020 68% · 2021 72% · 2022 39% · 2023 81% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Erika Sanders
President and CEO
Board chair
Ingrid Jagers
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $7k → $311k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC’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 MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 76% · 2021 66% · 2022 56% · 2023 61% — 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
83% of METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $322k 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 MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.0M
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 MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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
- Wisconsin Fair Housing Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC?
- METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,753 to it, the largest being MDRC ($638,650). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,242,753 in grants to METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC?
- MDRC is the largest funder on record, with $638,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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