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MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC

MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,966 to it, the largest being FRANK W VEDEN ENDOWMENT ST JAMES ($1,966). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$119k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$44k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Meals by Wheels of Fergus Falls Inc does

Mission

To serve homebound people and those who are unable to cook for themselves a nutritious meal.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Volunteers accomplished the delivery of 14,205 meals to the frail and elderly persons in the community who are unable to leave their homes because of a disability or temporary illness or who are unable to preapre their own meals

  2. because of a special diet. No one is denied a meal because of inability to pay the full cost of a meal, so some recipients receive their meals at less than cost. Any one who needs the service receives it. Meals are purchased at co

  3. Nutrition Services. An estimated Volunteer hours of 3300.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2022 Revenue 121 ($119k) Expenses 121 ($111k) Net assets 719 ($43k)2023 Revenue 121 ($119k) Expenses 127 ($117k) Net assets 743 ($44k)
202120222023
Revenue (121)Expenses (127)Net assets (743)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6k to $43k (+619%).

$6k
$43k
$44k
202120222023
Total assets

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.

2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’21
$7k
’22
$1k
’23

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Deb Johnson

Exec Director

Board chair

Deborah Embretson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC’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.

Where its funders are

MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

SD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Against its field

MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC has grown faster than half of the 12,278 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,278 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC?
MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,966 to it, the largest being FRANK W VEDEN ENDOWMENT ST JAMES ($1,966). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,966 in grants to MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC?
FRANK W VEDEN ENDOWMENT ST JAMES is the largest funder on record, with $1,966 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS BY WHEELS OF FERGUS FALLS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 1 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