New York · Nonprofit
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS (New York) receives grants from 831 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,421,384 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($9,388,687). 542 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 831
- Grants received
- $68M
- Net assets
- $84M
What Citymeals-On-Wheels does
Mission
Citymeals-On-Wheels provides a continuous lifeline of nutritious food and human company to homebound elderly new yorkers, helping them live with dignity in their own familiar homes and communities. 100% of all public donations are used for the preparation and delivery of meals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Weekend home delivered meals program served 1,417,451 meals. Citymeals provides funding to 26 meal centers throughout new york city that prepare, package, and deliver nutritious meals for every saturday and sunday to homebound elderly who do not have the means to shop and prepare adequate food. Government funding is only available during non-holiday weekdays, 250 days a year. This program addresses the need for meals on the weekends.
$16,123,230 spentof which $14,174,510 as grants60% of program spendingThe breakfast box is the equivalent of 30 meals, including shelf stable and frozen food, and eight pounds of produce, procured, packaged, and delivered directly to homebound older adults by the distribution center monthly. Delivered 381,480 meals.
$4,095,071 spentof which $3,600,124 as grants15% of program spendingThe emergency food packages program served 250,146 meals. In time for the cold weather, citymeals distributes to each elderly meal recipient (22,000) two efp boxes (containing 4 meals each) of non-perishable food to ensure the elderly are prepared and stocked for winter or other emergencies when the client's regular deliveries might be delayed. Citymeals delivered 157,444 emergency packages to current meal recipients and delivered 92,702 3-7 meals of extra emergency bags.
$3,156,789 spentof which $2,775,247 as grants12% of program spendingThe holiday food package program served 68,521 meals. Citymeals provides food for homebound elderly new yorkers throughout the year for religious or national holidays when the local meals centers are closed. This program provides 1-8 shelf-stable meals delivering 47,374 boxes.
$740,398 spentof which $650,911 as grants3% of program spendingThis program support older adults at congregate sites (older adult centers) and home-delivered meals recipients with additional food and music to help with nutrition and socialization.
$616,757 spentof which $542,212 as grants2% of program spendingOn special holidays, determined by meal centers, hot nutritious and festive holiday meals are prepared and delivered to homebound elderly throughout the city of new york. Holidays include independence day, thanksgiving, hanukkah, christmas, new year's day, lunar new year and mother's day.
$426,070 spentof which $374,574 as grants2% of program spendingThe majority of citymeals' recipients subsist on low incomes. About 14% report trying to stretch the one daily meal they receive to last until the next delivery. This program is designed for meals recipients living in neighborhoods with limited access to affordable food and high levels of poverty. Citymeals provides supplemental food deliveries to homebound elderly who have the greatest need for extra food to maintain their strength.
$486,212 spentof which $427,446 as grants2% of program spendingCitymeals-On-Wheels began its fresh fruit and produce pilot program with homebound clients, mostly poor minorities residing in public housing in east harlem. These meal recipients receive fresh fruits and produce along with their regular daily delivered meals. This program is intended for clients who live in neighborhoods that lack good access to fresh produce and healthy fresh fruits. The program now serves clients in east harlem and queens. Supplemental meals delivered 78,259.
$726,786 spentof which $638,943 as grants3% of program spendingCitymeals started the wholesale pilot in september 2022. In fy25, the program sold 46,0458 ready-to-eat meals from the distribution center with proceeds going to continue the mission of citymeals of meeting the growing needs as the older adult population increases beyond all the other age groups.
$413,853 spentof which $363,833 as grants$332,483 earned by the program2% of program spendingA program created to support non-food necessities, like caring cases and small equipment for food preparation and delivery to the meal providers.
$36,925 spentof which $32,462 as grants0% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,822,091.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $46M to $67M (+44%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 10% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Daniel Boulud
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 233 funders to 337 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $9.2M.
41 of 831 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 831 funders by total. 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
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
46% 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 CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 35% · 2019 31% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 states 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
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS's funding base is broadening — from 233 funders to 337 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CITYMEALS-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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Citymeals-On-Wheels Property LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS?
- CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS (New York) receives grants from 831 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,421,384 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($9,388,687). 542 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS have?
- IRS filings report 831 organizations giving $68,421,384 in grants to CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS, 542 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,388,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 831 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