Metropolitan Family Service, Inc.

Metropolitan Family Service, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Gresham, Oregon, operates as a federal grant recipient (50% of awards) and sub-recipient (50% of awards) delivering community tax assistance and national service programming to low-to-moderate-income and underserved populations across Oregon. The organization holds no federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grants from the Internal Revenue Service, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Metropolitan's prime grant work centers on the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program (CFDA 21.009) from the IRS. The organization has received four consecutive VITA grants from October 2021 through September 2026, most recently a $300,000 Project Grant awarded October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2026, with a required non-federal matching contribution equal to the federal award amount. Under VITA, Metropolitan recruits and trains community volunteers to provide free tax return preparation and electronic filing services to individuals with earned income below Earned Income Tax Credit thresholds, with particular focus on underserved populations including persons with disabilities, non-English speakers, rural residents, military members and families, elderly taxpayers, and Native Americans. The organization must ensure at least 90 percent of prepared returns serve EITC-eligible individuals and file all eligible returns electronically, achieving 100 percent of annual return production goals with year-over-year incremental growth.

Customer concentration tracks heavily to the Corporation for National and Community Service — 19 awards combined across its Office of Grants Management and main grant line — followed by the IRS (6 awards), the Department of Education (4 awards), and the CDC (3 awards), accounting for 89 percent of award count. Metropolitan acts as a sub-recipient in the majority of its non-VITA work. Since 2021, the organization has received five sub-grants from the AARP Foundation's Experience Corps program (awarded September 2025, August 2025, June 2025, March 2025, and March 2024) to engage older adults and AmeriCorps National members as tutors for underperforming students in grades K–3; two sub-awards from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to support AmeriCorps formula programs (October 2023 and October 2021); sub-awards from the Oregon Department of Education for 21st Century Learning Centers programming (January 2023, November 2021, November 2021); and sub-awards from the Oregon Health Authority and CDC for COVID-19 community-based organization support (February 2022, July 2021, July 2021). The organization also received a sub-grant from the Forth Mobility Fund (November 2024) focused on equitable electric vehicle charging infrastructure financing for Justice40 communities. Activity has remained relatively flat across the past five years — six awards in 2021 declining to three in 2022, then four, five, and six awards in 2023, 2024, and 2025 respectively — with one award facing completion within the next twenty-four months.