How much does Citymeals-On-Wheels give?

Citymeals-On-Wheels reported 28 itemized grants totaling $15,236,395, out of $23,580,262 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Citymeals-On-Wheels fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (52%), Human Services (47%), Health (0%).

Who are Citymeals-On-Wheels's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Riseboro Community Partnership Inc ($14M), Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc ($13M), The Jewish Association for Services for the Aged ($12M).

Does Citymeals-On-Wheels fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Citymeals-On-Wheels?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc, Robin Hood Foundation, Food Bank for New York City.

Where is Citymeals-On-Wheels based?

Citymeals-On-Wheels is based in NY.

Citymeals-On-Wheels

Citymeals-On-Wheels at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Citymeals-On-Wheels

CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS provides a continuous lifeline of nutritious food and human company to homebound elderly new yorkers, helping them live with dignity in their own familiar homes and communities.

$24M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$57MHuman Services$52MHealth$471k

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 28 grants below total $15,236,395, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,580,262 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,343,867 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $14k
$10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$50k–250k7 grants · $929k
$250k+15 grants · $14M

$349,786

Median grant

States reached

$86M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RISEBORO COMMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS	$2,008,153
STANLEY ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER WEST SIDE	$1,526,895
REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC	$1,516,496
JASA	$1,505,879
CCNS HDML PROGRAM	$1,357,819
HEALTHY SENIOR SELECT - MEALS ON WHEELS	$1,356,333
ENCORE SENIOR CENTER	$946,544
NYFTA INC	$721,077
MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF STATEN ISLAND	$708,512
QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE SENIOR CENTER	$585,810
BAY RIDGE CENTER INC	$552,928
KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR CENTER	$382,657
PETER CARDELLA SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER	$370,350
GREAT PERFORMANCESARTISTS AS WAITRESSES INC	$349,786
RC STILLWELL LLC	$343,726

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $83.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$108M · 36 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$108M

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

-32%

Still filing today

89%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

RC
RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +207%
RA
REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +47%
TJ
THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED
9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +31%

Funded once

MS
MID-BRONX SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC
one grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue -32%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Community Agency for Senior Citizens Inc

The purposes for which community agency for senior citizens (casc) was formed are: (a) to aid and counsel the members of the senior citizen community, as well as others in the city of new york, and particularly in the staten island area…

Human Services

Jewish Home of Central New York Senior Apartments Inc

Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…

Housing & Shelter

Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services

Alpha Phi Alpha Senior Citizens Center Inc

To provide social and recreational services as well as hot nutritious meals in a congregate setting to individuals who have attained 60 years of age.

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BedfordParkMultiService Centerfor SeniorCitizensInc

The Sister Annunciata Bethell Neighborhood Senior Center, sponsored by the Bedford Park MultiService Center for Senior Citizens, Inc. is dedicated to providing A Home Away From Home. A place to gather with friends, share a meal and offers…

Human Services

Jewish Home Lifecare

Our mission is to empower older adults to enhance purpose and well-being through a portfolio of innovative health care services.

—

South Asian Council for Social Services Inc

Founded in 2000, the south asian council for social services (sacss) is a community-based nonprofit empowering more than 300,000 underserved new yorkers each year. located in flushing, queens. (continued on schedule o).sacss's mission is…

Human Services

National Council of Jewish Women Inc - Brooklyn

To provide community services to senior citizens and the economically challenged by providing a meal program, social recreation and education.

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Citymeals-On-Wheels

Citymeals-on-wheels provides a continuous lifeline of nutritious food and human company to homebound elderly new yorkers, helping them live with dignity in their own familiar homes and communities. 100% of all public donations are used for…

Food & Nutrition

Selfhelp Community Services Inc

A non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and at risk populations through a spectrum of services. selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to maintaining the independence and…

Human Services

Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources Inc

To assist societys most disenfranchised; the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with AIDS and the physically challenged by promoting, fostering and providing the highest quality of housing and services in a…

Health

Riverdale Senior Services Inc

Riverdale senior services, inc. (rss, inc.) is a multi-purpose non-profit agency whose mission is to promote the physical, intellectual, social and emotional well-being of older adults in the northwest bronx. rss, inc.'s programs are…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunnyside Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Griot Circle Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/37

Grantees still filing

31/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$83,531,235Other$21,370,096Food & Nutrition$4,051,138Recreation & Sports$1,053,498Youth Development$20,184

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation IncNY34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Food Bank for New York City · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Amazin' Mets Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · United Way of New York City · The New York Community Trust · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Citymeals-On-Wheels funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citymeals-On-Wheels. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home