California · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC
MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,793 to it, the largest being Wilson W Phelps Foundation ($145,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $249k
What Meals on Wheels of Fullerton Inc does
Mission
Assisting homebound or frail individuals in maintaining their independence in their own residences by providing home-delivered, nutritious, and well balanced meals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
A volunteer organization which provides low cost home delivered meals to fullerton residents who are homebound and unable to shop for groceries or prepare their own meals. These meals improve nutrition and promote independence by allowing clients to remain in their own homes.
$167,779 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $167,779.
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 $209k to $332k (+59%).
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: 2018 16% · 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FULLERTON 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 FULLERTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 73% · 2022 80% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $843 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.
Against its field
MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 FULLERTON 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 FULLERTON INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,793 to it, the largest being Wilson W Phelps Foundation ($145,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $167,793 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC?
- Wilson W Phelps Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF FULLERTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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