Metropolitan Affairs Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
381602801
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
3139614266
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Urban, Community Economic Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$205,887
Expenses
$601,179
Assets
$720,765
Liabilities
$184,498

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

50 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMY O'LEARY (PRESIDENT)
  • NAHEED HUQ (VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • AMY MALMER (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LIZABETH ARDISANA (CO-CHAIRPERSON)
  • DEBORAH DINGELL (CO-CHAIRPERSON)
  • TOM LUTZ (CO-CHAIRPERSON)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The work program of metropolitan affairs coalition ("mac") promotes regional cooperation and dialogue, and works to advance policies and programs that respond to the region's challenges and opportunities with everyone at the table. Mac's main areas of focus include economic development, infrastructure, environment, education, and government effectiveness and efficiency.mac is the only group comprised of leaders in business, labor, government, and education who work cooperatively to address regional issues and serve as a catalyst for change. Mac works closely with its partner organization, the southeast Michigan council of governments ("semcog"), and benefits from semcog's expertise, research, data collection, and analysis.

What it reported doing in 2025

Economic development - implementing southeast Michigan's 2021 comprehensive economic development strategy ("ceds") and baseline research for the 2025 ceds, mac and semcog coordinated the development of southeast Michigan's regional economic development strategy, increasing shared prosperity for a resilient economy, based on the three pillars of talent, place, and business. Since approval in 2021, the focus has been on implementation of the six strategies, 22 policies, and 99 actions by semcog, mac, and other economic development stakeholders. See schedule o for additional information about this program.in 2023, semcog was officially designated as the economic development district ("edd") for southeast Michigan. Edd's are focused on driving a regional economic development planning process that engages the public, private, and non-profit sectors to establish a strategic blueprint. Edd's prepare and maintain a region's ceds, assist with implementation, and provide technical assistance to local governments and economic development organizations. As a result of this designation, mac will partner with semcog in expanding its economic development focus. This included preparing a semcog/mac economic development task force in 2025.mac is also supporting the following economic development priorities:- continuing "implementation of broadband in southeast Michigan: expansion, engagement and equity", a regional framework for broadband approved by semcog and mac in 2022, which focuses on increasing availability and access to high-speed internet in southeast Michigan by connecting with internet service providers, as well as state and federal governments, on policies and priorities, developing resources for communities, and providing technical assistance to help improve expansion of infrastructure and access to affordable and reliable internet, as well as addressing digital literacy and the digital divide- continuing to support the mobility industry by collaborating with workforce development agencies to help create the necessary workforce, to educate local governments on resources to support the transition to electric vehicles for fleets, and to support regional initiatives such as the detroit regional partnership on implementation of the global epicenter of mobility initiative, working with the Michigan department of labor and economic development office of future mobility, michauto, and policy makers to align effortsmac will also continue to promote labor force participation and equity in education and workforce development. This includes promoting support services to help students and workers overcome barriers, preparing the workforce for the changing nature of jobs, and supporting the governor's 60/30 initiative, reskilling and upskilling workers for high-growth occupations, increasing awareness and access to training and education, and promoting innovative hiring practices. Mac will also implement the strategies identified by the healthcare task force related to addressing challenges in attracting, training, recruiting, and retaining the healthcare workforce through a career pathways campaign, articles, and other efforts. This will help stabilize and strengthen the healthcare ecosystem and increase economic opportunities and jobs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -192%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 47 of 47 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $514K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 50 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $449K reported
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.