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MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC

MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,461 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($128,482). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$516k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$327k
Net assets
$562k
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels of Salem County Inc does

Mission

The mission of Meals on Wheels of Salem County (MOW) is to provide hot nutritious meals to disabled and persons who are over the age of 60 and unable to provide for themselves, prepare their own meals and make daily purchases of foods and other necessities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the year MOW providedin excess of 35,000 hot meals daily to individuals who were unable to provide for themselves through delivery's by volunteers.

    $426,458 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $426,458.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($481k) Expenses 100 ($478k) Net assets 100 ($225k)2018 Revenue 116 ($557k) Expenses 101 ($482k) Net assets 132 ($298k)2019 Revenue 140 ($674k) Expenses 106 ($507k) Net assets 207 ($466k)2020 Revenue 105 ($507k) Expenses 105 ($502k) Net assets 209 ($472k)2021 Revenue 127 ($613k) Expenses 103 ($492k) Net assets 263 ($592k)2022 Revenue 111 ($532k) Expenses 107 ($510k) Net assets 271 ($610k)2023 Revenue 105 ($507k) Expenses 115 ($548k) Net assets 252 ($569k)2024 Revenue 107 ($516k) Expenses 109 ($523k) Net assets 250 ($562k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (109)Net assets (250)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $345k to $514k (+49%).

$269k
$345k
$514k
$555k
$623k
$635k
$647k
$601k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 32% · 2020 48% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 46% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$75k
’18
$167k
’19
$5k
’20
$120k
’21
$22k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$7k
’24
12
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.

Board chair

Staci Dempsey

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1211131512877
Joined·+2+3+5+3+1+1+2
No longer listed·3136522
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $42k.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SALEM COUNTY 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 SALEM COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 SALEM COUNTY INC.

39%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 72% · 2019 62% · 2020 51% · 2021 38% · 2022 63% · 2023 72% — 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

83% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 SALEM COUNTY INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.

ME
MA
NV
PA
NJ
MO
VA

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

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’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC?
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,461 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($128,482). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $327,461 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC?
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $128,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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