Connecticut · Nonprofit
MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC
MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,052 to it, the largest being Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $266k
- Net assets
- $696k
What Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as long as circumstances demand, and that clients without the necessary resources will be provided meals without charge, to help them maintain their independence and their health while remaining at home with ties to their community unbroken.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Meals on wheels of new canaan provides nourishing meals five days a week to eligible citizens of new canaan, connecticut so that they may continue living independently and maintain their own households. Meals are planned and prepared by a professional chef and the waveny care center dietary department staff. During the last fiscal year mow-nc's 230 volunteers delivered over 16,798 meals to an average of 48 fully or partially subsidized residents in the new canaan community.
$118,930 spentof which $118,930 as grants$22,926 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $118,930.
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 $649k to $696k (+7%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $26k → $38k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 NEW CANAAN 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 NEW CANAAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 NEW CANAAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 60% · 2021 98% · 2022 78% · 2023 79% — 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
40% of MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NEW CANAAN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC?
- MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,052 to it, the largest being Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $266,052 in grants to MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC?
- Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 10 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