Alabama · Nonprofit
ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS
ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,493 to it, the largest being LAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY ($164,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $249k
- Net assets
- $157k
What Alexander City Meals on Wheels does
Mission
To provide a balanced meal(one per day) to elderly & handicapped individuals who are unable to prepare their own meals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided meals(one per day) to elderly and handicapped individuals who were unable to prepare their own meals.
$82,239 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,239.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $107k to $126k (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
53% of ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $19k → $32k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 63% · 2020 53% · 2021 68% · 2022 72% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
97% of ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS?
- ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,493 to it, the largest being LAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY ($164,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $249,493 in grants to ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS?
- LAKE MARTIN AREA UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $164,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALEXANDER CITY MEALS ON WHEELS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing