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METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC

METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 282 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,477,628 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,313,986). 183 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50M
Funders on record
282
Grants received
$42M
Net assets
$42M
183/282 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Metropolitan Ministries Inc does

Mission

To care for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in our community, through services that alleviate suffering, promote dignity, and instill self-sufficiency as an expression of the ongoing ministry of jesus christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Outreach and prevention services:metropolitan ministries' street outreach team, the brigaide, focuses on engaging adult homeless individuals to provide wrap around services resulting in a transition to shelter or housing. Services are provided in hillsborough, pasco, and pinellas county.continued on schedule o.

    $20,697,435 spent
    48% of program spending

  2. Residential and offsite programs:uplift hall, hope hall and offsite apartments and programs are aimed at dealing with the issues of poverty and homelessness by focusing on the needs of each individual situation. Continued on schedule o.

    $15,149,281 spent$2,222,079 earned by the program
    35% of program spending

  3. Childhood and adult education:adult support services: metropolitan ministries provides wrap around services for adults participating in residential or community-based case management programs, including adult education, employment, counseling, housing search and placement, health and wellness, and spiritual care. Support services leverage community partnerships and resources when available. These services are designed to be flexible and are utilized to help support each family's unique journey to self-sufficiency.continued on schedule o.

    $6,998,720 spent$120,978 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,845,436.

02The 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 ($22M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 117 ($25M) Expenses 125 ($26M) Net assets 95 ($16M)2019 Revenue 124 ($27M) Expenses 131 ($27M) Net assets 91 ($15M)2020 Revenue 167 ($36M) Expenses 152 ($32M) Net assets 118 ($20M)2021 Revenue 196 ($42M) Expenses 184 ($38M) Net assets 143 ($24M)2022 Revenue 197 ($42M) Expenses 202 ($42M) Net assets 163 ($27M)2023 Revenue 206 ($44M) Expenses 201 ($42M) Net assets 256 ($42M)2024 Revenue 195 ($42M) Expenses 209 ($43M) Net assets 248 ($41M)2025 Revenue 231 ($50M) Expenses 236 ($49M) Net assets 252 ($42M)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (236)Net assets (252)Peer revenue range

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 $49M to $75M (+53%).

$22M
$21M
$19M
$26M
$28M
$31M
$49M
$75M
$78M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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2018
2019
2020
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2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 16% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 17% · 2024 18% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$767k
’17
−$907k
’18
−$620k
’19
$4.5M
’20
$3.9M
’21
$385k
’22
$2.4M
’23
−$1.4M
’24
$695k
’25
0.7
months of
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

Tim Marks

President and CEO

Board chair

Jeff Marple

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed303332333433343837
Joined·+6+6+4+3+12+4+9+5
No longer listed·373213356
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 130 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $7.6M.

Funder
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funders
62
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110
139
131
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36 of 282 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $7.1M from 22 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 282 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 MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

58% 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 MINISTRIES INC.

17%
largest funder
32%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 18% · 2019 31% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 14% · 2023 18% — 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

55% of METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $789k on record — $126k federal, $663k state.

Federal$126k
grants $126kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$126k
State$663k
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $555k
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $103k
  • CONTRACTED SERVICES - OTHER $5k

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 MINISTRIES 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 Florida

Lighthouse Ministries Inc85%Catholic Charities Diocese of St Petersburg Inc83%Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc83%Florida Dream Center Inc82%Family Promise of Martin County Inc82%The City Rescue Mission Inc82%Lighthouse Gospel Mission81%Christian Service Center for Central Florida Inc81%

Nationally

Lighthouse Ministries Inc85%Agate Housing & Services Inc84%Family Promise Montco Pa84%Hope House Rescue Mission Inc84%Umom New Day Centers Inc83%Catholic Charities Diocese of St Petersburg Inc83%Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc83%The Hope Center Inc83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

29
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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

FL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Metropolitan Ministries Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Miracleplace Pasco Initiative Inc · exempt
  • Metropolitan Ministries Broadway LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC?
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 282 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,477,628 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,313,986). 183 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 282 organizations giving $42,477,628 in grants to METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC, 183 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,313,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 282 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