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MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC

MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,026 to it, the largest being Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation ($959,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.6M
12/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels of Polk County Inc does

Mission

To provide meals to those in need of assistance

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide hot nutritious meals to the elderly or infirmed at little or no cost to the recipient. 122,600 meals were provided the past year, offering daily and low-cost household goods to those in need.

    $635,976 spent$400,190 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $635,976.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 115 ($1.2M) Expenses 121 ($1.2M) Net assets 98 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 122 ($1.3M) Expenses 111 ($1.1M) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 132 ($1.4M) Expenses 134 ($1.4M) Net assets 112 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 159 ($1.7M) Expenses 140 ($1.4M) Net assets 133 ($1.6M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (159)Expenses (140)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4M to $1.6M (+19%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.6M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’21
−$22k
’22
$150k
’23
$20k
’24
$250k
’25
3.2
months of
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

Susan Eldridge

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1918181717
Joined·+1+3+2+0
No longer listed·2330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $64k → $228k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 POLK COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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 POLK COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

27% 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 POLK COUNTY INC.

71%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 52% · 2019 64% · 2020 50% · 2021 60% · 2022 91% · 2023 76% — 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

33% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 POLK COUNTY INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 5 states in all.

VA
DE
TN
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

45% of spending goes to programs.

Program 45%Management 54%Fundraising 1%

Governance

18
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 POLK COUNTY INC?
MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,026 to it, the largest being Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation ($959,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,360,026 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC?
Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $959,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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