The Meeting Place One Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550863996
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Morganton, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8284325659
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,037
- Expenses
- $190,350
- Assets
- $225,238
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Suzy Fitzgerald (President)
- Katy Fox (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Charlotte Eidson (Executive Dir.)
- Suzy Fitzgerald (President)
- Katy Fox (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to give immediate aid and comfort to any local citizen facing a hopeless situation. Food, a bed, and some peace are provided to help them get their life back. Our emergency shelter is a safe space for women and children who have nowhere to go.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our purposes is to provide shelter, food, clothing, and aid to those in need in Burke County, NC. We work closely with other like-minded organizations in the community to ensure that the physical, mental, legal, social, educational, recovery, and spiritual needs of our less fortunated are attended. Our programs operate on a four point plan: extensive assessment, developing a plan of action, accountability, & goal maintenance. We provide housing, meals, counseling, job placement, and referral to other services. We currently use 3 locations to transition residents into permanent housing. Our emergency shelter provides a safe night's stay for women and children who have nowhere to go. When somenone checks into the shelter we provide a good meal and a clean bed. We give each person a clean set of pajamas to wear after they shower. This allows us to launder their clothes overnight. In the morning they leave after breakfast with a hearty snack, wearing clean clothes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.