South Carolina · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC
MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,314,944 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($548,050). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $512k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $224k
What Meals on Wheels Bluffton Hilton Head Inc does
Mission
To deliver nutritious meals and reduce isolation for elderly, ill, disabled, and homebound individuals in bluffton and hilton head, on a temporary or long-term basis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since 1979, Meals on Wheels Bluffton-Hilton Head has served homebound, elderly, ill, disabled, and financially vulnerable neighbors by delivering nutritious meals and reducing isolation for individuals in Bluffton, Hilton Head Island, and Sun City, on a temporary or long-term basis. Through its More Than a Meal(R) Program, the organization delivers hot, nutritious meals five days each week, 52 weeks per year, including Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 2025, Meals on Wheels Bluffton-Hilton Head delivered 30,291 fresh, hot meals to 257 unduplicated clients across 12 weekday delivery routes. The program fills a critical need for individuals who cannot reliably access traditional food resources due to immobility, illness, disability, lack of transportation, financial hardship, or limited support. Many clients live alone, face rising food costs, or manage health conditions that make shopping and meal preparation difficult. Each delivery includes more than a meal. Volunteer drivers provide a friendly visit and wellness check, offering regular human connection and helping clients remain safely and independently in their homes. In 2025, 78 clients completed or transitioned off service,…
$408,940 spent$499,897 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $408,940.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $509k to $298k (−41%).
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: 2023 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Christine Bluso
Executive Director
Board chair
James O Daniel
Chair /Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $58k → $294k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 42% · 2021 22% · 2022 38% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
62% of MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC'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 $500k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $815k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC
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In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,314,944 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($548,050). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,314,944 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC?
- Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $548,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 20 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