Texas · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY
MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,070,883 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ($28,133,934). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County does
Mission
To enable people to live with dignity and independence by offering community support through nutritious meals and coordinated services that improve well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The agencys mission is to enable people to live with dignity and independence by offering community support through nutritions meals and coordinating services that improve well-being. The legacy home delivered meal program assistshomebound elderly and disabled people who are unable to prepare a nutritiousmeal for themselves and do not have a regular and reliable source of help. Nutritious meals combined with professional case management and other needed services such as minor medical equipment, incontinent supplies, minor home repair, and companion pet meals enable qualified individuals to remain living independently in their own homes. The congregate meal program provides nutritions meals in a community setting such as adult activity centers where programs are available to help combat social isolation and lonliness. The organization delivers appoximately 1.3 million meals each year to some of tarrant countys most vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens. The primary service area is tarrant county.
$10,446,943 spentof which $4,575,688 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,446,943.
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 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $25M (+33%).
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: 2017 42% · 2018 49% · 2019 48% · 2020 40% · 2021 64% · 2022 59% · 2023 59% · 2024 72% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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.
Chief executive
Alissa Deaton
President & CEO
Board chair
Ann Salyer-Caldwell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $6.9M.
17 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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 ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 INC OF TARRANT COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 76% · 2019 76% · 2020 65% · 2021 74% · 2022 79% · 2023 75% — 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
55% of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
96% of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY's grant income comes from Texas 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 14 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 ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY 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
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Meals on Wheels Inc Endowment Fund · exempt
- Meals on Wheels Client Assistance Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY?
- MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,070,883 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ($28,133,934). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $38,070,883 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $28,133,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 92 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