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MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC

MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,433 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ($97,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$569k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$481k
Net assets
$358k
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels of Central Alabama Inc does

Mission

Meals on wheels vision is to help create a central alabama where all seniors live nourished lives with independence and dignity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Meals on wheels served over 233,895 meals to 1,236 homebound seniors by providing home delivered meals five days a week. The program relies on a network of over 575 volunteers, who not only deliver meals but also provides safety checks for this vulnerable population.

    $594,363 spentof which $4,118 as grants$72,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $594,363.

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 ($301k) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets -50 ($-188026)2018 Revenue 154 ($464k) Expenses 92 ($389k) Net assets -30 ($-112560)2019 Revenue 113 ($341k) Expenses 98 ($414k) Net assets -49 ($-181165)2020 Revenue 436 ($1.3M) Expenses 184 ($773k) Net assets 100 ($372k)2021 Revenue 261 ($786k) Expenses 176 ($740k) Net assets 115 ($430k)2022 Revenue 301 ($908k) Expenses 213 ($896k) Net assets 113 ($420k)2023 Revenue 180 ($543k) Expenses 151 ($634k) Net assets 95 ($354k)2024 Revenue 189 ($569k) Expenses 141 ($594k) Net assets 96 ($358k)
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Revenue (189)Expenses (141)Net assets (96)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 2018 to 2019, from $137k to $382k (+179%).

$288k
$137k
$382k
$517k
$538k
$512k
$422k
$416k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 16% · 2021 3% · 2022 38% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$119k
’17
$75k
’18
−$73k
’19
$541k
’20
$46k
’21
$12k
’22
−$92k
’23
−$25k
’24
3.1
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

John A Langloh

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·0000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $54k → $90k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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

53% 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 CENTRAL ALABAMA INC.

20%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 70% · 2022 53% · 2023 34% — 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

50% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

75% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

CA
NC
AL
FL

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

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’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC has grown faster than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA 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 Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 4 related entities

  • United Way of Central Alabama Inc · exempt
  • Priority Veteran Inc · exempt
  • Hands on Birmingham Inc · exempt
  • Community Partnership of Alabama Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC?
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,433 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ($97,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $481,433 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC?
THE DANIEL FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $97,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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