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CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS

CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,244 to it, the largest being SMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($135,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$285k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$320k
Net assets
$257k
12/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Culver Palms Meals on Wheels does

Mission

To provide meals on the west side of Los Angeles from Pico Blvd. to LAX, delivered by volunteers to people with illness, disability, or aging who cannot plan, shop, or provide for themselves.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mission/Overview:Culver Palms Meals on Wheels provides nutritious meals, subsidies for those in financial need, and volunteer-driven support to reduce hunger, isolation, and hardship among homebound seniors and individuals with disabilities in Culver City and West Los Angeles.1. Home-Delivered Meals ProgramIn FY 20242025, CPMOW delivered 34,667 meals to homebound seniors and individuals with disabilities. Service included 1,530 Fresh Friday produce bags, 130 free Thanksgiving meals, and 55 emergency food bags. Clients were also celebrated with holiday and birthday gifts, helping reduce isolation and ensure dignity.2. Nutrition Subsidy ProgramTo ensure access regardless of income, CPMOW fully subsidized 15,846 meals (up from 12,858 in FY 20232024). Partially subsidized meals declined from 9,215 to 8,472, showing a greater need for full support. Subsidies directly reduce hunger for clients with the most tremendous financial hardship.3. Volunteer Engagement & Client SupportVolunteers contributed 10,980 hours (valued at $410,794) through meal delivery, safety checks, and companionship. They also delivered holiday and birthday gifts, reinforcing that clients are remembered and cared…

    $355,646 spent$97,957 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $355,646.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($105k) Net assets 100 ($108k)2018 Revenue 146 ($142k) Expenses 97 ($103k) Net assets 137 ($148k)2019 Revenue 115 ($112k) Expenses 107 ($112k) Net assets 136 ($148k)2020 Revenue 258 ($251k) Expenses 246 ($259k) Net assets 129 ($140k)2021 Revenue 558 ($544k) Expenses 302 ($318k) Net assets 337 ($365k)2022 Revenue 317 ($309k) Expenses 299 ($315k) Net assets 331 ($359k)2023 Revenue 331 ($323k) Expenses 314 ($331k) Net assets 323 ($350k)2024 Revenue 394 ($384k) Expenses 348 ($367k) Net assets 339 ($367k)2025 Revenue 293 ($285k) Expenses 375 ($395k) Net assets 237 ($257k)
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Revenue (293)Expenses (375)Net assets (237)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $140k to $369k (+163%).

$108k
$148k
$148k
$140k
$369k
$360k
$352k
$371k
$255k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
$40k
’18
−$252
’19
−$8k
’20
$225k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$9k
’23
$17k
’24
−$110k
’25
7.7
months of
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

Alan Hall

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed81081291081010
Joined·+3+1+4+1+1+1+2+2
No longer listed·13040302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $50k → $40k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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

CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% 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 CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS.

42%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 48% · 2023 37% — 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

27% of CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

78% of CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA
MO
VA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS?
CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,244 to it, the largest being SMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($135,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $320,244 in grants to CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS?
SMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CULVER PALMS 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.

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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 19 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