New Mexico · Nonprofit
Meals on Wheels New Mexico
Meals on Wheels New Mexico (New Mexico) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,010,735 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($750,500). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Meals on Wheels New Mexico does
Mission
Delivering healthy meals and friendship neighbor to neighbor. The Organization cooks, prepares, and delivers meals to hungry people across New Mexico and provides contact with these people to ensure that their dietary health and other needs are met.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals Program: In 2025 Meals on Wheels New Mexico delivered 267,730 meals to over 2,100 hungry neighbors across Albuquerque and New Mexico. We are the only home delivered meal program in our area providing eight different types of special diets. We provide these special diets for a variety of needs, including diabetes, renal failure, heart issues, chewing and swallowing problems, etc. Through grants, donations, and the support of the community we can provide free or subsidized meals to those who meet income guidelines.
$2,667,522 spent$1,355,058 earned by the program90% of program spendingForage: Forage is a fresh food vending machine featuring grab-and-go food items from both local vendors and in-house products. These fresh food vending machines are available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week at various locations across the city where fresh food may be hard to come by (such as emergency rooms, ambulance bays, and large office buildings). Organizations pay a fee to have a Forage machine on site, and Meals on Wheels NM stocks and manages the machine weekly. Any profit made from the Forage brand goes directly back to the Meals on Wheels program in support of our home-delivered meal program. In 2025, Forage had 15 machines across the City of Albuquerque.
$166,425 spent$89,024 earned by the program6% of program spendingLocal Harvest: Through our Local Harvest program, Meals on Wheels New Mexico is purchasing locally farmed fruits and vegetables for use in our meals. The program allows us to support local farmers, our economy, and the environment while providing our clients with fresh and healthy produce that they would be unable to obtain on their own. In 2025, Meals on Wheels purchased over 50,000 pounds of local product for use in our foods!
$77,782 spent3% of program spendingPet Program: Our Pet Program provides healthy food and more to our clients pets. Having a pet is proven to ease depression and relieve feelings of isolationsomething many of our clients struggle with daily. Services include food, mobile or emergency veterinary care, mobile grooming, dog walks, emergency boarding, pet pantry items, and more. In 2025 we provided Pet Program services to over 286 pets!
$54,169 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,965,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $579k to $2.1M (+259%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of Meals on Wheels New Mexico’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $9k → $315k.
13 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 New Mexico’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 New Mexico has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 New Mexico.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 41% · 2019 29% · 2020 44% · 2021 72% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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
44% of Meals on Wheels New Mexico's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Meals on Wheels New Mexico draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 New Mexico runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Meals on Wheels New Mexico
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Meals on Wheels New Mexico: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Meals on Wheels New Mexico?
- Meals on Wheels New Mexico (New Mexico) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,010,735 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($750,500). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Meals on Wheels New Mexico have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $3,010,735 in grants to Meals on Wheels New Mexico, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meals on Wheels New Mexico?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $750,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meals on Wheels New Mexico find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 53 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