Illinois · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION
METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,997 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($651,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $945k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $601k
What Metropolitan Tenants Organization does
Mission
To educate, organize and empower tenants to have a voice in the decisions that affect the availability and affordability of safe,decent and accessible housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tenants stabilization:tenants stabilization includes three sub-progams. Each program is designed to educate and assist individual tenants to stabilize their rental housing situation. Mto's tenants rights hotline serves between 8,000 and 10,000 renters annually. Staff and volunteer hotline counselors provide callers with information to help them resolve existing housing crises. Counselors provide tenants with verbal information and then send them written documentation. Mto provides tenants with 11 different brochures covering all areas of rental housing. Mto aslo has 15 sample letters tenants can use to help them follow the law and communicate with their landlord. Mto's eviction prevention partnership with the lawyers committee for better housing
$556,882 spent67% of program spendingAffordable housing prevention program (ahpp):through ahpp, the organization attempts to reverse deteriorating conditions of subsidized and privately owned rental stock and to hold landlords accountable for mistreatment and unfair policies. Ahpp helps tenants to form tenants associations and provides self-help tools to tenants that build the capacity of tenants and community leaders to initiate repairs and be proactive about housing conditions in their community.
$181,558 spent22% of program spendingAdvocacy program:the advocacy program is currently working to secure passage of three housing laws. Mto empowers members to participate in coalitions, meet with the alderman and develop campaigns. Currently, mto is working to secure the passage of chicago healthy homes inspection program (chhip), the housing for all campaign and the just housing initiative (jhi). Mto supports lifting the ban on rent control. Chhip works to develop a proactive inspection program for the city of chicago. Housing for all seeks to expand chicago's aro ordinance by increasing the number of affordable housing units being built. Jhi will limit the use of criminal background checks for tenants seeking apartments in cook county.
$96,878 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $835,318.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $401k to $595k (+48%).
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 44% · 2018 39% · 2019 44% · 2020 60% · 2021 60% · 2022 68% · 2023 73% · 2024 75% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $199k → $217k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 TENANTS ORGANIZATION’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 TENANTS ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 TENANTS ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 93% · 2019 49% · 2020 27% · 2021 27% · 2022 59% · 2023 46% — 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
21% of METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
81% of METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $711k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 TENANTS ORGANIZATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 TENANTS ORGANIZATION: 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 TENANTS ORGANIZATION?
- METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,997 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($651,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,607,997 in grants to METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $651,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 21 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