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Meals on Wheels Texas

MEALS ON WHEELS TEXAS is a voluntary membership association of home-delivered and congregate meal programs established to ensure every older person and individual with a disability in texas is well nourished and has the social supports they need to age in place with dignity.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$193kHuman Services$81kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kCommunity Improvement$33kScience & Tech$30k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $102,380, the rows itemized in this filing. The $124,165 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,785 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.
$30,460
Median grant
1
States reached
$130k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUTRITION & SERVICES FOR SENIORS$41,460
MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC$30,460
SENIOR CENTER OF WALKER COUNTY$30,460
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WILLIAMSON BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES: $33k → 6%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 10%HOOD COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $30k → 10%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $12k → 12%ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $12k → 17%NUTRITION & SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $41k → 19%SENIOR CENTER OF WALKER COUNTY: $30k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $10k → 10%NUTRITION & SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $5k → 19%SENIOR CENTER OF WALKER COUNTY: $10k → 20%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 6 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$161k
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +3%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS
    2× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +61%
  • AC
    ANGELINA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENSINC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +40%
  • WC
    WILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +8%
  • OC
    ORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue -57%
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.

1
Meals On Wheels Collin County

Our mission is to combat hunger and isolation in disabled and older adults by providing nutritious meals enabling them to remain healthy and independent within their families, homes, and communities.

Human Services
2
Gonzales County Senior Citizens Association Inc

Provide home delivered meals and transportation services free of charge

Food & Nutrition
3
Muleshoe Meals On Wheels Inc

The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…

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4
Meals On Wheels Waco

Meals on wheels waco nourishes the bodies, minds, and spirits of older adults in the heart of texas through meals, transportation, activities, and volunteer support.

Human Services
5
Mineola Senior Citizens Center Inc
Human Services
6
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

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7
Meals On Wheels Senior Services

To keep the elderly and disabled citizens of Rockwall County living in their homes as long as safely possible through supportive services, nutritious meals, and daily human contact.

Human Services
8
Swisher County Senior Citizens Associationinc

Provide meals to senior citizens of swisher county, texas; by "meals on wheels- and or in house dining.

Human Services
9
Meals On Wheels Montgomery County

To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.

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10
Meals On Wheels

Prepare and deliver hot meals to the elderly and disabled 5 days a week.

Human Services
11
Meals On Wheels-Santa Maria Valley Inc

Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.

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12
Council On Aging & Human Services

Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels San Antonio; the most unlike its peers is Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $46,714 · Human ServicesNUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORSMEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INC: $40,460 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INCMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $40,460 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $33,200 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INCORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $32,246 · Human ServicesORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATIONTHE ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $12,391 · Human ServicesCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesANGELINA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENSINC: $11,004 · Human Services+2 more: $10,052 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO: $45,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIOCARDINAL360 LLC: $30,000 · OtherCARDINAL360 LLCSunshine House Inc: $9,254 · OtherSunshine House IncHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MHMR CENTER: $6,650 · OtherHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MHMR C…Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $5,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $11,455 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON W…MEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS: $11,004 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON W…RAINBOW SENIOR CENTER: $6,504 · Food & NutritionRAINBOW SE…KIMBLE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,004 · Food & NutritionKIMBLE COU…Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $5,000 · Religion
Human Services$238,027Other$95,904Food & Nutrition$33,967Religion$5,000

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 budgetNUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $46,714 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS - WALKER COUNTYTX INC: $40,460 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $40,460 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON-BURNET COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $33,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $32,246 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $11,455 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SOUTH TEXAS: $11,004 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANGELINA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENSINC: $11,004 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSunshine House Inc: $9,254 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRAINBOW SENIOR CENTER: $6,504 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOOD COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5,048 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIMBLE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,004 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $5,004 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $5,000 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Meals on Wheels Ameri…Isla Carroll Turner F…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Texas Mutual Insuranc…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Meals on Wheels AmericaVA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meals on Wheels America · Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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