Metropolis Strategies NFP

Analysis

Metropolis Strategies NFP is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Metropolis Strategies NFP reported income of $2.3m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $685k to $2.3m (+239%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 169%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Metropolis Strategies NFP sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Commun Denver Inc ($2.3m), Cozen Oconnor Foundation Inc ($2.3m) and United Way of Saginaw County ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $177k, net assets of $1.7m.