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MEALS ON WHEELS

MEALS ON WHEELS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,250 to it, the largest being JOSEPH B AND VIRGINIA H BANKS FOUNDATION ($49,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$285k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$120k
Net assets
$351k
3/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels does

Mission

Delivery of meals to homebound individuals

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 20,409 meals were prepared, delivered and served

    $197,590 spent$121,742 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,590.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($148k)2018 Revenue 100 ($135k) Expenses 102 ($141k) Net assets 96 ($142k)2019 Revenue 138 ($186k) Expenses 108 ($149k) Net assets 122 ($180k)2020 Revenue 109 ($146k) Expenses 85 ($118k) Net assets 141 ($208k)2021 Revenue 122 ($164k) Expenses 96 ($133k) Net assets 162 ($239k)2022 Revenue 129 ($174k) Expenses 124 ($171k) Net assets 163 ($241k)2023 Revenue 143 ($193k) Expenses 140 ($193k) Net assets 163 ($241k)2024 Revenue 163 ($219k) Expenses 141 ($195k) Net assets 179 ($264k)2025 Revenue 212 ($285k) Expenses 144 ($199k) Net assets 237 ($351k)
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Revenue (212)Expenses (144)Net assets (237)

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 $264k to $351k (+33%).

$148k
$142k
$180k
$217k
$248k
$241k
$241k
$264k
$351k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 11% · 2019 29% · 2020 44% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% · 2024 39% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$6k
’18
$37k
’19
$29k
’20
$31k
’21
$2k
’22
−$641
’23
$24k
’24
$86k
’25
21
months of
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.

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Joined·········
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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $6k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 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

MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 67% · 2020 93% · 2021 49% · 2022 78% · 2023 80% — 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

50% of MEALS ON WHEELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

86% of MEALS ON WHEELS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

IL
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS?
MEALS ON WHEELS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,250 to it, the largest being JOSEPH B AND VIRGINIA H BANKS FOUNDATION ($49,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $120,250 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS?
JOSEPH B AND VIRGINIA H BANKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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