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THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $900,781 to it, the largest being THE SAINT PAUL FOUNDATION ($506,531). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$7.6M
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$901k
Grants received
$618k
Net assets
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $901k to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.3M) Net assets 100 ($833k)2018 Revenue 103 ($7.6M) Expenses 104 ($7.6M) Net assets 95 ($788k)2019 Revenue 118 ($8.6M) Expenses 119 ($8.7M) Net assets 91 ($758k)2020 Revenue 122 ($9.0M) Expenses 123 ($9.0M) Net assets 90 ($746k)2021 Revenue 125 ($9.2M) Expenses 124 ($9.1M) Net assets 104 ($869k)2022 Revenue 139 ($10M) Expenses 135 ($9.8M) Net assets 147 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 137 ($10M) Expenses 140 ($10M) Net assets 125 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 104 ($7.6M) Expenses 103 ($7.6M) Net assets 74 ($618k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (103)Net assets (74)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
17
$44k
18
$31k
19
$12k
20
$124k
21
$351k
22
$177k
23
$72k
24
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $64k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% 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 THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’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

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62% 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 THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.

56%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 76% · 2021 69% · 2022 84% · 2023 53%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.

Where its funders are

60% of THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $364k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
NJ

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $537k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: 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 THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $900,781 to it, the largest being THE SAINT PAUL FOUNDATION ($506,531). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $900,781 in grants to THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
THE SAINT PAUL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $506,531 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING 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.

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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing