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MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND

MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,375 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($186,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$714k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$190k
Net assets
$4.9M
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County Endowment Fund does

Mission

To receive, invest and manage contributions for the exclusive benefit of meals on wheels inc of tarrant county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To receive, invest and manage contributions for the benefit of meals and wheels, inc. Of tarrant county.

    $164,535 spentof which $164,535 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,535.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($798k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 13 ($101k) Expenses 147 ($205k) Net assets 101 ($3.1M)2019 Revenue 30 ($239k) Expenses 126 ($175k) Net assets 104 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 3 ($27k) Expenses 159 ($221k) Net assets 106 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 54 ($428k) Expenses 114 ($160k) Net assets 131 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 67 ($535k) Expenses 181 ($252k) Net assets 112 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 30 ($237k) Expenses 194 ($271k) Net assets 120 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 69 ($551k) Expenses 95 ($132k) Net assets 145 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 89 ($714k) Expenses 157 ($219k) Net assets 158 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (157)Net assets (158)Peer revenue range

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 $3.7M to $4.5M (+21%).

$3.1M
$3.1M
$3.2M
$3.3M
$4.1M
$3.5M
$3.7M
$4.5M
$4.9M
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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

11% of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$659k
’17
−$104k
’18
$64k
’19
−$195k
’20
$269k
’21
$283k
’22
−$33k
’23
$418k
’24
$495k
’25
6.7
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.

Chief executive

Alissa Deaton

President & CEO

Board chair

Quentin Mcgown

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101014151315151411
Joined·+1+6+1+1+4+1+4+2
No longer listed·12032155
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $19k → $38k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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: $666k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County). These are real filings, and they are not money MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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 ENDOWMENT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 4 states.

MA
RI
CA
NC

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k 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

Against its field

MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 16%Fundraising 8%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County · exempt
  • Meals on Wheels Client Assistance Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND?
MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,375 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($186,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $190,375 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $186,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ENDOWMENT FUND 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 6 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