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Metro Meals on Wheels Inc

Metro meals on wheels, as the association of independent meals on wheels programs in the twin cities metro area, leads the effort to ensure individuals receive the nutritious meals and the human connection they need to live independently.

$319k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,529
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,320
Organizations funded a year
1 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Metro Meals on Wheels Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$318k8%
FY202323$290k0%
FY202225$302k8%
FY202125$306k96%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20194$53k75%
FY20182$17k100%
FY20171$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.0MHuman Services$194kEducation$83kCommunity Improvement$24kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metro Meals on Wheels Inc$202,68451%
Open Arms of Minnesota$56,70061%
Community Emergency Service Inc$56,26151%
Impact Services Inc$55,49353%
Eastside Meals on Wheels Inc$53,17853%
Amherst H Wilder Foundation$50,77850%
Trust Inc$49,64553%
Meals on Wheels - South Shore$45,941515%
Mounds View Public$43,4395n/a
Bloomington-Eden Prairie Meals on Wheels$43,35953%
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All grantees of Metro Meals on Wheels Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metro Meals on Wheels Inc$202,68451%
Open Arms of Minnesota$56,70061%
Community Emergency Service Inc$56,26151%
Impact Services Inc$55,49353%
Eastside Meals on Wheels Inc$53,17853%
Amherst H Wilder Foundation$50,77850%
Trust Inc$49,64553%
Meals on Wheels - South Shore$45,941515%
Mounds View Public$43,4395n/a
Bloomington-Eden Prairie Meals on Wheels$43,35953%
Isd 624$43,2495n/a
Hastings Family Service$41,77651%
Keystone Community Services$41,15250%
Dinner at Your Door$39,95657%
Merrick Community Services$39,44450%
Isd 623$39,4075n/a
Meals on Wheels in Nw Dakota Co$38,03056%
Wayzata-Plymouth Meals on Wheels$37,707511%
North St Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale District$37,0295n/a
Jewish Family Service of St Paul$36,76050%
Richfield Churches United Inc$35,504412%
Southwest Meals via Wheels$34,1694n/a
Al-Maa'uun$28,50841%
Community Enhancement Services$23,5561n/a
South Minneapolis Meals on Wheels$20,0001n/a
Mobile Meals of Northern Dakota County$19,0502n/a
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis$18,10030%
Hot Meals for Shut Ins$9,99116%
Sewa-Aifw$9,84920%
Impact Online Inc$6,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Metro Meals on Wheels Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetro Meals on Wheels Inc: $202,684 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOpen Arms of Minnesota: $56,700 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Emergency Service Inc: $56,261 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetImpact Services Inc: $55,493 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEastside Meals on Wheels Inc: $53,178 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAmherst H Wilder Foundation: $50,778 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrust Inc: $49,645 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels - South Shore: $45,941 over 5y, 15% of budgetBloomington-Eden Prairie Meals on Wheels: $43,359 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHastings Family Service: $41,776 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $41,152 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDinner at Your Door: $39,956 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetMerrick Community Services: $39,444 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels in Nw Dakota Co: $38,030 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetWayzata-Plymouth Meals on Wheels: $37,707 over 5y, 11% of budgetJewish Family Service of St Paul: $36,760 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRichfield Churches United Inc: $35,504 over 4y, 12% of budgetAl-Maa'uun: $28,508 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $18,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHot Meals for Shut Ins: $9,991 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSewa-Aifw: $9,849 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetImpact Online Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Senior Services Consortium of Ramsey County · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Stevens Square Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Xcel Energy Foundation · Edina Realty 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.

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About Metro Meals on Wheels Inc

How much does Metro Meals on Wheels Inc give?
Metro Meals on Wheels Inc reported 30 grants totaling $318,737 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Metro Meals on Wheels Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (76%), Human Services (15%), Education (6%).
Who are Metro Meals on Wheels Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metro Meals on Wheels Inc ($203k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($57k), Community Emergency Service Inc ($56k).
Does Metro Meals on Wheels Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Metro Meals on Wheels Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Metro Meals on Wheels Inc based?
Metro Meals on Wheels Inc is based in MN.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $357k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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