California · Nonprofit
The Metropolitan Fresh Start House
The Metropolitan Fresh Start House (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Extrafood ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $580k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $-57111
What The Metropolitan Fresh Start House does
Mission
To restore men to dignity, productivity and responsibility; To remove homeless veterans from the streets or habitation unfit for humans and into a safe and suitable residential environment with enough supportive services to meet their basic needs and facilitate the improvement of their health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
VA Homeless veteran services: provide transitional living services for homeless men in a safe, clean and sober environment. There were 60 veterans serviced
$388,096 spentof which $1,025 as grants$574,458 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $388,096.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2k to $45k (+1992%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of The Metropolitan Fresh Start House’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Against its field
The Metropolitan Fresh Start House runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding The Metropolitan Fresh Start House receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$6.4M
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 The Metropolitan Fresh Start House
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Metropolitan Fresh Start House: 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 Fresh Start House?
- The Metropolitan Fresh Start House (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Extrafood ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Metropolitan Fresh Start House have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to The Metropolitan Fresh Start House.
- Who is the largest funder of The Metropolitan Fresh Start House?
- Extrafood is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Metropolitan Fresh Start House find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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