Virginia · Nonprofit
METAS
METAS (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Metas does
Mission
METAS's mission is to support Spanish-speaking individuals who are blind or have low vision-as well as those around them-in the United States through training, accessible and culturally competent information, and relevant resources; and, in turn, to serve as a model for sharing the aforementioned with socially marginalized communities. METAS is a non profit organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
METAS used the grant through the Borealis organization to restructure our vision, mission and byalws in a way that makes sense and is easy ot understand.
$0 spentMETAS was able to conduct various webinars during the year that focused on blindness related issues in Spanish. We had many individuals join from various locations and received positive feedback on the themes shared. We were able to reach around 300 people due to this.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $44k to $118k (+170%).
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.
100% of METAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Maria Hernandez Legorreta
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of METAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
METAS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
METAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like METAS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METAS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METAS?
- METAS (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METAS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $85,000 in grants to METAS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METAS?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing