California · Nonprofit
Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc
Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,525,993 to it, the largest being PARK BIXBY TOWER INC ($317,583). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to support homebound seniors, veterans, individuals with chronic illnesses, and those with disabilities by providing nutritious meals, meaningful social connections, and a range of in-home support services. These efforts help our clients remain independent, well-nourished, safe, and comfortable in their own homes for as long as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Home Delivered Meals - Meals on Wheels of Long Beach provides nutritious, ready-to-eat meals to individuals who face challenges with grocery shopping or meal preparation and may lack consistent support from family or friends. Services are available to residents of Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, and Leisure World Seal Beach, regardless of age. Meals are delivered Monday through Friday (excluding major holidays) with care and compassion. Each delivery includes a hot dinner, cold lunch, dessert, and milk. In 2025, MOWLB delivered more than 140,000 meals to 793 unduplicated clients. Meal Deliveries support homebound seniors, veterans, individuals with chronic illnesses, and those with disabilities by providing nutritious meals, meaningful social connections, and a range of in-home support services. These efforts help our clients remain independent, well-nourished, safe, and comfortable in their own homes for as long as possible. Services are available to all qualified applicants at a subsidized cost. For those with limited income, meals and support services are fully subsidized following an intake assessment. This program is made possible through the generous support of individual…
$1,077,580 spentof which $329,085 as grants$594,392 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,077,580.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+54%).
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 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $52k → $362k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Long Beach Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 Long Beach Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 Long Beach Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 44% · 2019 55% · 2020 19% · 2021 36% · 2022 23% · 2023 21% — 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
36% of Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
74% of Meals on Wheels of Long Beach 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. $206k 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 Long Beach Inc 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 of Long Beach 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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Long Beach 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 Long Beach Inc?
- Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,525,993 to it, the largest being PARK BIXBY TOWER INC ($317,583). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,525,993 in grants to Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc?
- PARK BIXBY TOWER INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meals on Wheels of Long Beach 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 31 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