· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CES MEALS ON WHEELS | $14,320 |
| CEAP | $13,210 |
| IMPACT ANOKA CHAMPLIN | $13,000 |
| BLOOMINGTON MEALS ON WHEELS | $12,761 |
| AL-MAA'UUN (V) | $11,772 |
| EASTSIDE MEALS ON WHEELS | $11,560 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL | $11,554 |
| WILDER FOUNDATION MOW | $11,058 |
| KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $11,027 |
| TRUST MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,909 |
| ROSEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,777 |
| DINNER AT YOUR DOOR | $10,753 |
| MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,737 |
| NW DAKOTA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,540 |
| MOUNDSVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,529 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA6× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +309%
- AHAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +27%
- TITRUST INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CECOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $24k
- SMSOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -3%
- BMBloomington Meals on Wheelsone grant, 2019 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Provide 115+ local shut-in seniors with hot lunches 5 days a week
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To promote the health and well-being of seniors in medina county so that none are left isolated or hungry.
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels provides nutritious meals, social contact and other services to the homebound elderly, ill and disabled in eastern Washtenaw County, to enable them to enjoy healthier, safer, and more independent lives.
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.
Prepare and deliver hot meals to the elderly and disabled 5 days a week.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bloomington-Eden Prairie Meals On Wheels and the most unlike its peers is Meals on Wheels - South Shore. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Eastside Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels - South Shore ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON-EDEN PRAIRIE MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds DINNER AT YOUR DOOR ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS IN NW DAKOTA CO ↗
- Who funds Wayzata-Plymouth Meals on Wheels ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds RICHFIELD CHURCHES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Al-Maa'uun ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds HOT MEALS FOR SHUT INS ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds Impact Online Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Metro Meals on Wheels Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.