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Meals on Wheels California Inc

To provide a unified voice advocating for seniors and broaden the impact of our programs across the state of california; to improve the lives of seniors, adults with disabilities, and their families.

$100k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALY SENIOR CENTER$10,000
TORRANCE LOMITA MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
MEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FUND$10,000
ST FRANCIS LIVING ROOM$10,000
ON LOK PACE & SENIOR CARE PROGRAMS$10,000
SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SENIOR CENTER$10,000
SENIORS FIRST$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS WEST LA$10,000
COMMON GOOD SENIOR SERVICES$10,000
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CTR$10,000
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CTR: $10k → 10%ST FRANCIS LIVING ROOM: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST LA: $10k → 14%HEALY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 18%ON LOK PACE & SENIOR CARE PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 14%TORRANCE LOMITA MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 field
03the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSANTA CLARITA VALLEY SENIOR CENTERTORRANCE-LOMITA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 · OtherTORRANCE-LOMITA MEALS ON WHEELS INCVIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CTR: $10,000 · OtherVIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CTRMEALS ON WHEELS WEST LA: $10,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS WEST LAHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc: $10,000 · OtherHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt IncMEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FUND: $10,000 · OtherMEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY FUNDCOMMON GOOD SENIOR SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherCOMMON GOOD SENIOR SERVICESSt Francis Living Room: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSt Francis …SENIORS FIRST INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS FIR…ON LOK INC: $10,000 · HealthON LOK INC
Other$70,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Human Services$10,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Francis Living Room: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTORRANCE-LOMITA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSENIORS FIRST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetON LOK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Meals on Wheels California Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meals on Wheels California Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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