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Altadena Meals on Wheels

Altadena Meals on Wheels (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$112k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$117k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Altadena Meals on Wheels does

Mission

Altadena Meals on Wheels is a volunteer-based nonprofit that delivers hot, nutritious meals to homebound seniors in Altadena, helping them stay healthy, nourished, and independent in their own homes. Through compassionate service and daily volunteer contact, AMOW supports vulnerable residents facing illness, recovery, aging, and food insecurity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided weekday home-delivered hot meals to homebound seniors and other residents in Altadena who were unable to prepare or obtain nutritious meals due to age, illness, or recovery, helping them remain healthy and independent in their homes.

    $31,612 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,612.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($26k)2018 Revenue 100 ($16k) Expenses 103 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($26k)2019 Revenue 122 ($20k) Expenses 123 ($19k) Net assets 103 ($27k)2025 Revenue 691 ($112k) Expenses 238 ($37k) Net assets 445 ($117k)
2017201820192025
Revenue (691)Expenses (238)Net assets (445)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $26k to $27k (+2%).

$26k
$26k
$27k
$117k
2017201820192025
Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Altadena Meals on Wheels’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$625
’17
$70
’18
$600
’19
$75k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Altadena 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

Altadena 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

66% 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 Altadena Meals on Wheels.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

66% of Altadena Meals on Wheels's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Altadena Meals on Wheels runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin67% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Altadena Meals on Wheels

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In California

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

53%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Altadena Meals on Wheels?
Altadena Meals on Wheels (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Altadena Meals on Wheels have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,750 in grants to Altadena Meals on Wheels.
Who is the largest funder of Altadena Meals on Wheels?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Altadena Meals on Wheels find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing