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META HOUSE INC

META HOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,265,702 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($2,516,528). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$12M
Funders on record
90
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$2.9M
59/90 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Meta House Inc does

Mission

Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential treatment program - meta house operates residential facilities with 35 beds for women who require the structure of a 24-hour, seven-day-per-week program in order to maintain sobriety and rebuild their lives. In addition, meta house houses up to 15 children under the age of 12 who live with their mothers in our facility during their mothers' treatment and receive a variety of intensive services to ameliorate the impact of material substance use.

    $9,661,580 spentof which $5,700,000 as grants$1,472,834 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. Outpatient/transitional living program - to meet the additional needs of women seeking sobriety, meta house provides gender-responsive treatment in an outpatient setting. The outpatient program offers a similar array of services as the residential treatment program and serves women who may be able to maintain sobriety while living in their own home, with the help of in-home case management visits. Transitional living - to meet the needs of women and families that are homeless and in need of safe, affordable housing. Provides 27 furnished apartments in two facilities.

    $2,670,076 spent
    22% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,331,656.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.9M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 120 ($6.3M) Expenses 106 ($6.2M) Net assets 99 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 131 ($6.9M) Expenses 114 ($6.7M) Net assets 105 ($4.3M)2020 Revenue 129 ($6.8M) Expenses 109 ($6.4M) Net assets 117 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 153 ($8.0M) Expenses 122 ($7.2M) Net assets 139 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 180 ($9.4M) Expenses 120 ($7.1M) Net assets 191 ($7.8M)2023 Revenue 196 ($10M) Expenses 214 ($13M) Net assets 136 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 228 ($12M) Expenses 251 ($15M) Net assets 71 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (251)Net assets (71)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.1M to $32M (+355%).

$5.1M
$5.0M
$5.3M
$5.5M
$6.4M
$8.7M
$7.1M
$32M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 75% · 2019 72% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 46% · 2023 54% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$651k
’17
$43k
’18
$128k
’19
$380k
’20
$825k
’21
$2.4M
’22
−$2.3M
’23
−$2.8M
’24
15
months of
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.

Chief executive

Valerie Vidal

President/CEO

Board chair

Christine Culver

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1621181824202228
Joined·+8+1+4+6+0+6+9
No longer listed·3440443
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $607k → $3.0M.

20 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of META HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

META HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund META HOUSE INC.

25%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 63% · 2019 52% · 2020 37% · 2021 34% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of META HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of META HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
IL
WI
NY
CT
CA
MO
NC
SC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Government funding META HOUSE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.3M on record.

Federal$24.3M
grants $24.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$24.3M

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Meta House Holdings LLC · disregarded
  • Meta House I LLC · disregarded
  • Meta House Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds META HOUSE INC?
META HOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,265,702 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($2,516,528). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does META HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $10,265,702 in grants to META HOUSE INC, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of META HOUSE INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,516,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like META HOUSE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 90 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing