Maryland · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC (Maryland) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,004,436 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Meals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc does
Mission
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and prevents premature institutionalization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nutrition servicesnutrition services includes the delivery of a daily hot lunch meal and cold dinner meal which offer two-thirds of the daily allowance of nutrients for an adult over 60 and are low in fat, sodium, and concentrated sugars. Weekend and holiday meals are offered as are specialty meals including kosher, korean, diabetic and texture modified meals.
$8,692,396 spent$2,149,270 earned by the program70% of program spendingClient servicesclient support services begin with a comprehensive assessment of client needs and offer a unique and individual complement of services that includes daily safety and wellness monitoring, crisis response, snap screening and enrollment, grocery assistance, home repair and modification, pet food delivery, and case management and care coordination services that offer links to other community resources.
$3,718,987 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,411,383.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $28M (+96%).
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 30% · 2018 27% · 2019 27% · 2020 29% · 2021 14% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% · 2024 44% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Stephanie Archer-Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $680k → $1.8M.
20 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 MARYLANDINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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 MARYLANDINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 MARYLANDINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 17% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 85% · 2022 17% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
51% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
82% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.6M 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 OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC 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
Government funding MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $296k on record — $23k federal, $274k state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$23k
- Grant$274k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: 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 CENTRAL MARYLANDINC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC (Maryland) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,004,436 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $20,004,436 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 112 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