California · Nonprofit
FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS
FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,855 to it, the largest being DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE ($78,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $290k
What Five Cities Meals on Wheels does
Mission
To provide meals to homebound individuals in the local area.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Provided 23,646 meals to homebound residents during the current fiscal year end
$109,668 spent$77,336 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $109,668.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $499k to $435k (−13%).
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 6% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $7k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 FIVE CITIES 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
FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like FIVE CITIES 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIVE CITIES 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 FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS?
- FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,855 to it, the largest being DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE ($78,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $168,855 in grants to FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS?
- DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE is the largest funder on record, with $78,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIVE CITIES 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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