Texas · Nonprofit
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More (Texas) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,666,158 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,170,270). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More does
Mission
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our services enable area seniors to remain in their homes and remain integral to the community for as long as possible.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
HOME DELIVERED MEALS PROGRAM - FORT BEND AND WALLER COUNTY: Fort Bend Seniors' (FBS) goal is to promote better health for eligible homebound older adults by providing nutritious home-delivered meals.See Schedule OClients must be 60 years of age or older and score a minimum of 20 on the Department of Aging and Disabilities Assessment. Eligibility is based on an assessment of impairment in the ability to perform activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living; frequency of a person leaving their home or needing assistance to do so; ability to prepare nutritious meals and shop for food, their nutritional risk, and financial resources available to the senior. Services are provided at no cost to the client.CASE MANAGEMENT - FBS provides individual assessments by a trained and degreed case manager to determine seniors' needs in the areas of social services, nutrition, and health care. Once an assessment is completed, FBS staff arrange for the appropriate services to be delivered and provide follow-up reviews to ensure needs are being met. Through case management, participants are assessed for the following services: home-delivered meals, nutrition education, needs…
$2,400,787 spentof which $1,594,215 as grants79% of program spendingSENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER PROGRAM - FORT BEND AND WALLER COUNTY: Fort Bend Seniors' (FBS) senior activity centers promote better mental and physical health for older people through both nutritious meals and socialization. The senior center nutrition service operates as part of a comprehensive system of services designed to promote independent living for the elderly, serving as a focal point for these services.See Schedule OClient Participants must be 60 years of age or older. When a client enters the program, an Intake and Nutritional Risk Screening is completed to determine the participant's nutritional risk and needs, enabling staff to assist in improving their health. The participant is eligible to choose to participate in all the following services at no cost to the client:SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER MEALS Senior activity center meals include one hot meal daily that meets at least 1/3 of the recommended daily allowance of all nutrients required by adults, provided in a group setting. An integral part of the Meals on Wheels program, Fort Bend Seniors provides congregate meals five days per week at 7 locations in Fort Bend and Waller counties. The seven site locations providing…
$540,181 spentof which $252,749 as grants18% of program spendingTRANSPORTATION CLIENTS: Includes older adults 60 years of age and participating in one of the senior activity center meal programs in Fort Bend County. FBS maintains files containing information that identifies regular participants, documents eligibility, and provides information on emergency contacts.UNIT OF SERVICE: A unit of service is a one-way trip provided to an eligible person from one location to another. Each client is eligible for two units of service per day. The service is provided five days per week (Monday-Friday). See Schedule OTRANSPORTATION OUTCOMES: In 2024, FBS provided 19,041 rides to senior participants to and from congregate senior centers under the contract with Fort Bend County. This was a 1 percent increase in rides over the prior year. Participants who required transport for various other personal needs were also able to book on-demand transport separate from FBS.
$90,316 spentof which $54,779 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,031,284.
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 $3.7M to $4.6M (+26%).
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 49% · 2018 51% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 53% · 2022 61% · 2023 54% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Doug Simpson
Executive Director
Board chair
Regina Morales
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $749k → $782k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 62% · 2019 53% · 2020 39% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 32% — 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
46% of Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
92% of Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $379k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More?
- Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More (Texas) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,666,158 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,170,270). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $6,666,158 in grants to Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $3,170,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 40 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