Florida · Nonprofit
MEALS OF HOPE INC
MEALS OF HOPE INC (Florida) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,866,695 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,213,799). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Meals of Hope Inc does
Mission
The mission of meals of hope is to inspire and empower communities to come together to end hunger. We believe it is our job to feed people. Meals of hope began as a food packing organization.continued on schedule owe are the only food packing organization with a priority on keeping the food packed within the united states. We have developed five meals specifically designed for the american palate and add vitamins, minerals and proteins to our meals in order to supplement an unbalanced diet.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2025, meals of hope launched a new program called agency resale. Through this program, meals of hope purchases food in bulk and stores it for partner agencies to access as needed. Local agencies can purchase items at cost and either pick them up at our mercantile location or have them delivered directly to their site. Agency resale helps ensure food pantries have consistent access to high-quality, affordable supplies as government and local funding continue to decline.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Meals of hope takes a multi-pronged approach to ending hunger by feeding people through its mobile food pantries, meal packing events and out of school program. In 2025, we consistently served up to 3,500 families per week collectively through our 15 mobile food pantries in collier and lee counties; 40,000 of our volunteers packed more than 13.3 million fortified meals and donated them to local feeding america food banks across the u.s. For distribution, and provided over 81,000 packs of emergency weekend food to at-rick students in public schools in a three-county radius.
$14,495,027 spentof which $605,402 as grants$4,959,637 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,495,027.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.4M to $13M (+134%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of MEALS OF HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jacques Groenteman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $656k → $899k.
12 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 MEALS OF HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 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
MEALS OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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
85% 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 MEALS OF HOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 29% · 2019 63% · 2020 21% · 2021 55% · 2022 47% · 2023 29% — 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 MEALS OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
79% of MEALS OF HOPE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MEALS OF HOPE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MEALS OF HOPE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $971k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $971k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MEALS OF HOPE INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Meals of Hope Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS OF HOPE INC: 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 MEALS OF HOPE INC?
- MEALS OF HOPE INC (Florida) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,866,695 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,213,799). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $10,866,695 in grants to MEALS OF HOPE INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS OF HOPE INC?
- COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,213,799 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 91 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