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Illinois · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS (Illinois) is funded by 58 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $731,418 in grants to it, the largest being ABRA PRENTICE FOUNDATION INC ($275,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MEALS ON WHEELS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,840 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Grant income rose $5k → $8k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
From the IRS filings of MEALS ON WHEELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. Association, not causation.
MEALS ON WHEELS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 62% · 2019 64% · 2020 30% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 48% · 2024 34% · 2025 64% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
30% of MEALS ON WHEELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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.
MEALS ON WHEELS is locally rooted: 99% of its grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 58 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 58funders 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. view filing