Metropolitan Affairs Coalition

Analysis

Metropolitan Affairs Coalition is a registered charity in United States, based in Detroit, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1960, 66 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 December 2023, Metropolitan Affairs Coalition reported income of $225k and spending of $227k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $252k to $225k (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Metropolitan Affairs Coalition sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Synergies Work Inc ($225k), Professional Opticians of Florida Education Foundation Inc ($225k) and Junior League of Baltimore Inc ($225k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 110% of the total. At year end it held assets of $533k against liabilities of $90k, net assets of $443k.