Minnesota · Nonprofit
MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES
MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being FAMILY HOUSING FUND ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Model Cities Properties does
Mission
To operate for the benefit of model cities of st. Paul, inc. And model cities community development corporation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Model Cities Properties encompasses all of model cities' real estate development projects. Our most recent development, model cities brownstone, is located at the victoria street light rail transit (lrt) station of st. Paul's green line. The development is a 4-story, mixed-use transit-oriented development that includes 35 units of affordable rental housing; approximately 20,000 square feet of retail, office and community space; and close to 7,000 square feet of outdoor space dedicated to a pocket park. In 2025, 44 individuals (31 households) with low incomes gained access to safe, affordable housing at our brownstone loft apartments. See schedule o for additional information.since opening in 2017, brownstone has been at or near 100 percent occupancy (approximately 94% on average each year) for the 35 units of affordable housing included in the project. The population of residents is diverse with a mix of races, ages, and families residing at brownstone. Interest continues to remain high in the residence as we typically get multiple applications for vacancies when they arise. In addition, model cities is increasing its capacity as a property manager as it has successfully met all…
$480,375 spent$464,844 earned by the program57% of program spendingModel Cities Properties also serves as a holding company for our sankofa and families first supportive housing developments, which provide 37 long-term, low-cost housing units at no more than 30% of family income. Sankofa serves pregnant and parenting youth and young adults ages 17-25. Families first serves single-parent families, mostly single mothers with a history of homelessness.
$362,388 spent$394,920 earned by the program43% of program spendingModel cities continues to work on a development project (652 sherburne), a vacant 8-unit building located in the frogtown neighborhood of st. Paul. Model cities, along with the frogtown neighborhood association (fna), hope community, historic st. Paul, and the housing justice center, came together as the sherburne collective to jointly redevelop the building into a six-unit community-ownership based project. Rondo community land trust will own the land in a trust ensuring that the building will remain in community ownership in perpetuity. This $2.9 million dollar project includes a complete renovation of the building, converting some of the units to much needed four-bedroom family units. Funding has been committed from both ramsey county and the city of st. Paul. Model cities serves as the developer and manages the construction project and will provide property management services until the units can be converted to ownership under a condo or coop model. The rondo community land trust owns the land. Fna will conduct community outreach and with hope community, help prepare eligible families for ownership. Rehab of the building began in spring 2024 and will continue through 2025,…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $842,763.
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 2017 to 2018, from $9.2M to $10.0M (+9%).
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 26% · 2018 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 25% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kizzy Downie
CEO/board secretary
Board chair
Osborne Strickland
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Model Cities Brownstone LLC · disregarded
- Model Cities Sankofa LLC · disregarded
- Model Cities Families First No 1 LLC · disregarded
- Model Cities Community Development Corporation · exempt
- Model Cities of St Paul Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES?
- MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being FAMILY HOUSING FUND ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES.
- Who is the largest funder of MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES?
- FAMILY HOUSING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MODEL CITIES PROPERTIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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