Illinois · Nonprofit
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers (Illinois) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,317,950 to it, the largest being The South Bronx Educational Foundation Inc ($838,265). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers does
Mission
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, through its Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls, helps close the achievement gap for Chicago's urban youth ages eight through eighteen.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Midtown/Metro Achievement Program (7th-8th) - Math, science, and english courses prepare students to enter a college preparatory high school, and ultimately, college. Character development is strongly emphasized through individual advising. Students acquire the habits of successful people of good character.
$642,403 spent$164,076 earned by the program27% of program spendingCollege Orientation Program (9th-12th grade) - The Centers help students prepare for college entrance exams and explore college options. Students engage in enrichment activities such as cultural field trips, college tours and service projects.
$780,992 spentof which $109,200 as grants33% of program spendingOne-On-One (4th-6th grade) - Young professional volunteers act as individual tutors/mentors for students. Weekly sessions aim to encourage good attitudes toward learning, assist students with homework, present positive role models for students and develop in students the study habits associated with high achievers.
$611,719 spent26% of program spendingParenting Program - The Centers provided seminars and other forms of support for parents, since parental leadership is key to Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers's philosophy.
$322,251 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,357,365.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $6.1M to $5.2M (−15%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Vincent Meno
Executive Director
Board chair
Lawrence Morris
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $273k → $1.7M.
18 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
60% 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 Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 20% · 2019 15% · 2020 9% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
62% of Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers: 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 Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers?
- Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers (Illinois) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,317,950 to it, the largest being The South Bronx Educational Foundation Inc ($838,265). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $7,317,950 in grants to Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers?
- The South Bronx Educational Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $838,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 95 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