Texas · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY
MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,390 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $654k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $360k
What Meals on Wheels of Palo Pinto County does
Mission
To promote the dignity and independence of elderly and disabled individuals in our community by providing nutritious meals and coordinating applicable services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
. Provides nutritious meals to older adults and disabled individuals in community settings such as senior centers and libraries. FY25 1,281 meals served to 173 participants
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Provide nutritious home-delivered meals to homebound elderly and disabled residents of palo pinto county, texas. During the past year, approximately 60,038 meals were delivered to 391 residents homes.
$433,375 spent$3,199 earned by the program99% of program spendingProvides nutritious meals to older adults and disabled individuals in community settings such as senior centers and libraries. In fiscal year 2025, 1,281 meals were served to 173 participants.
$5,057 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $438,432.
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 $179k to $361k (+101%).
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 59% · 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2023 69% · 2024 74% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 PALO PINTO COUNTY’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 PALO PINTO COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 PALO PINTO COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 53% — 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
99% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PALO PINTO COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY: 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 PALO PINTO COUNTY?
- MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,390 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $84,390 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY?
- VIRGINIA LEE UPHAM AND CHESTER R UPHAM JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALO PINTO COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 7 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