Washington · Nonprofit
GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS
GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,895 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($197,697). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $742k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels does
Mission
Meal distribution programs provide nutritious meals at a nominal cost to the disabled, elderly, and homebound in need of service in the spokane county geographic area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Deliver meals to homebound elders and persons with disabilities. Meals on wheels provided over 250,000 meals during the year.
$2,069,575 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,069,575.
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 $1.2M to $1.8M (+57%).
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 61% · 2018 57% · 2019 58% · 2020 75% · 2021 72% · 2022 67% · 2023 69% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Brenda Eastman
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $49k → $87k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
92% 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 GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 65% · 2019 48% · 2020 49% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
40% of GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
51% of GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY 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 $363k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $379k 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.
Against its field
GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS is better cushioned than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS?
- GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS (Washington) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,895 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($197,697). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $741,895 in grants to GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS?
- MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $197,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 26 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