METEC Resource Center
Legal name: Metec
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371410246
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Peoria, IL, United States
- Phone
- (309) 676-3832
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,458,102
- Expenses
- $1,406,733
- Assets
- $554,279
- Liabilities
- $275,313
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANTHONY ALLEN (Vice President)
- LESLIE VALLAR (President)
Highest reported compensation
- DIANA MARTINEZ (Executive Dir.): $60,356 total reported compensation
- JULIE HUDELSON-SCHMIDGALL (EX Director): $5,534 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
With the right support, achieving them may be closer than you think—METEC helps individuals and families become homeowners, permanent employment seekers and money savers. Are those your dreams for the future? With the right support, achieving them may be closer than you think. At METEC, we're here to help individuals and families become homeowners, permanent employment seekers and money savers. We got our start in 2001 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Peoria, helping Parishioners and neighbors learn how to create budgets, reduce debt and make sound financial decisions, The need was great, so we soon formed a nonprofit organization to serve the broader community. Today, METEC works with families across a seven-county area from our offices on West Krause Avenue in Peoria. Our services help community members find or keep a home, learn a new skill, improve their cre.
What it reported doing in 2025
Metec assisted approx. 2,650 families and individuals with housing counseling services and employment programs and assisted 223 individuals with new home purchases. Approx. 42 individuals received emergency rental and mortgage services. Approx 59 individuals received services through the employment assistance program. Finally, approx 1,089 tax returns were prepared free of charge for families and individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.