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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 FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.0MHuman Services$194kEducation$83kCommunity Improvement$24kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$4k
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $277k
$10,529
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $12k → 14%Jewish Family Service St Paul: $9k → 14%Jewish Family Service St Paul: $8k → 14%Jewish Family Service St Paul: $8k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $11k → 14%Merrick Community Sevices: $10k → 14%Merrick Community Sevices: $9k → 14%Merrick Community Sevices: $9k → 14%Wilder Foundation MOW: $16k → 14%Wilder Foundation MOW: $14k → 14%WILDER FOUNDATION MOW: $11k → 14%Wilder Foundation MOW: $10k → 14%Open Arms of Minnesota: $20k → 11%CES Meals on Wheels: $16k → 11%CES MEALS ON WHEELS: $14k → 11%CES Meals on Wheels: $14k → 11%CES Meals on Wheels: $12k → 11%TRUST Meals on Wheels: $14k → 11%TRUST Meals on Wheels: $12k → 11%TRUST Meals on Wheels: $12k → 11%TRUST MEALS ON WHEELS: $11k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERV MPLS: $10k → 11%Jewish Family & Childrens Serv Mpls: $8k → 11%SEWA-AIFW: $10k → 11%Open Arms of MinnesotaV: $11k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTAV: $10k → 11%AL-MAA'UUN (V): $12k → 11%Open Arms of MinnesotaV: $9k → 11%Al-Maa'uun (v): $9k → 11%Open Arms of MinnesotaV: $7k → 11%Al-Maa'uun (v): $7k → 11%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

73%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OA
    OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
    6× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +309%
  • AH
    AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +27%
  • TI
    TRUST INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CE
    COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $24k
  • SM
    SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -3%
  • BM
    Bloomington Meals on Wheels
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
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
Meal a Day

Provide 115+ local shut-in seniors with hot lunches 5 days a week

Food & Nutrition
2
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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3
Bloomington Meals on Wheels Inc

To provide nutritional meals to homebound persons, who are unable through medical or physical disability pursuant to certification by a license medical doctor, to purchase and prepare nourishing meals. The service is provided to the ill,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels

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.

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5
Edmond Mobile Meals Inc

Edmond mobile meals is a community of caring volunteers uniting to provide nourishing meals and social connnection to edmond's homebound residents.

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6
Meals On Wheels West

To provide home-delivered meals to the frail, ill, mobility impaired, senior and veteran who is unable to shop or provide for themselves. our mission is to have these people live independently in their own homes by providing daily wellness…

Human Services
7
Shaker Heights Beachwood Meals On Wheels Meals on Wheels Shaker

Meals on Wheels Shaker (MOW) is an independent community service agency whose dedicated volunteers deliver affordable, nutritious meals of superior quality to residents of Shaker Heights, Beachwood and University Heights who are unable to…

Food & Nutrition
8
Meals On Wheels

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

Human Services
9
Hilltop Regional Kitchen

Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Greenup Meals On Wheels

Provide free, hot lunch meals to senior citizens and shut-ins who are unable to prepare or obtain meals for themselves.

Food & Nutrition
12
Meals On Wheels Chicago

Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Arms of Minnesota; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNDS VIEW PUBLIC: $43,439 · OtherMOUNDS VIEW PUBLICBLOOMINGTON-EDEN PRAIRIE MEALS ON WHEELS: $43,359 · OtherBLOOMINGTON-EDEN PRAIRIE MEALS ON WHEELSISD 624: $43,249 · OtherISD 624HASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE: $41,776 · OtherHASTINGS FAMILY SERVICEKeystone Community Services: $41,152 · OtherKeystone Community ServicesDINNER AT YOUR DOOR: $39,956 · OtherDINNER AT YOUR DOORISD 623: $39,407 · OtherISD 623MEALS ON WHEELS IN NW DAKOTA CO: $38,030 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS IN NW DAKOTA COWayzata-Plymouth Meals on Wheels: $37,707 · OtherWayzata-Plymouth Meals on WheelsNORTH ST PAUL-MAPLEWOOD-OAKDALE DISTRICT: $37,029 · OtherNORTH ST PAUL-MAPLEWOOD-OAKDALE DISTRICTRICHFIELD CHURCHES UNITED INC: $35,504 · OtherRICHFIELD CHURCHES UNITED INCSOUTHWEST MEALS VIA WHEELS: $34,169 · OtherSOUTHWEST MEALS VIA WHEELSCOMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT SERVICES: $23,556 · OtherTrust Meals on Wheels: $23,003 · Other+6 more: $66,281 · Other+6 moreOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $56,700 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTACOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $56,261 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE I…AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50,778 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATIONTRUST INC: $49,645 · Human ServicesTRUST INCMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $39,444 · Human ServicesMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICESJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $36,760 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST P…Al-Maa'uun: $28,508 · Human ServicesAl-Maa'uunJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $18,100 · Human Services+1 more: $9,849 · Human ServicesMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $202,684 · Food & NutritionMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INCEastside Meals on Wheels Inc: $53,178 · Food & NutritionEastside Meals on Wheels In…Meals on Wheels - South Shore: $45,941 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels - South Sho…SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MEALS ON WHEELS: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MEALS ON …IMPACT SERVICES INC: $55,493 · Community ImprovementImpact Online Inc: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$587,617Human Services$346,045Food & Nutrition$321,803Community Improvement$61,493

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

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…Senior Services Conso…Metropolitan Area Age…Mightycause Charitabl…Catholic Community Fo…Stevens Square Founda…Open Your Heart to th…Xcel Energy FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 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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