North Carolina · Nonprofit
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,439,568 to it, the largest being DEERFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($270,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc does
Mission
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health, safety, and independence of homebound older adults by providing nutritious, home-delivered meals and meaningful moments of human connection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County (MOWABC) operates Monday through Friday with a Board of Directors, 16-member staff and a network of over 300 volunteers. Meal delivery is available each weekday to Buncombe County seniors age 60 and older who are homebound, without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, handicap, or ability to pay. MOWABC received 13% of its funding through local, county, and state agencies. Approximately 87% of our support came through private donations from individuals, businesses, faith based groups, and foundations, as well as annual fundraising events and program income.
$1,140,474 spent$373,808 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn FY 2024/2025 MOWABC served 146,428 meals to 1,155 unduplicated senior clients throughtout Buncombe County. These meals included hot meals, frozen meals, snow boxes, and pantry bags. In addition to nutritional support, regular meal deliveries provide vital social contact, and wellness checks that help reduce isolation and ensure the ongoing well-being of older adults living alone.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,140,474.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $3.1M (+40%).
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: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc’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. 3 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
Debbie Sprouse
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $34k → $216k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 of Asheville and Buncombe County 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 of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
88% 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 of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 52% · 2019 67% · 2020 22% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% — 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
69% of Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
78% of Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc: 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 of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc?
- Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,439,568 to it, the largest being DEERFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($270,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,439,568 in grants to Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc?
- DEERFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 23 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