California · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC (California) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,026,508 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,010,500). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc does
Mission
To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The home-delivered meals program delivers essential meals and services to homebound older adults and adults with disabilities in the bay area, helping combat hunger and isolation and enabling people to live safely and with dignity at home for as long as possible. The program consists of: a home visit and assessment by a trained social service professional or licensed social worker; procurement, preparation, packaging and delivery of nutritious meals to homes; information and referral to other community resources; safety/wellness checks; companionship; nutrition education; and coordination with case managers, family members/caregivers and emergency personnel. The program also provides wraparound services to alleviate loneliness and social isolation and promote safe aging in place.
$19,081,741 spent$222,571 earned by the program74% of program spendingOther programs and services: the san francisco department of homelessness and supportive housing (hsh) operates navigation center programs to provide critical resources to adults experiencing homelessness. As a part of the operations, hsh contracts with the organization to provide meals to the navigation center programs and shelters. The organization prepares and delivers the meals as individual servings so that the navigation center programs' service providers can offer them to clients on a flexible schedule.
$6,236,765 spent24% of program spendingThe home delivered groceries program provides weekly home-delivered fresh groceries and a friendly visit/wellness-check to older adults who still have the ability to cook for themselves at home.
$547,328 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,865,834.
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.
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 $34M to $82M (+139%).
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 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 46% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 50% · 2023 33% · 2024 42% · 2025 57%. 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 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Steele
CEO
Board chair
Jose Allen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.5M.
33 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SAN FRANCISCO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 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 SAN FRANCISCO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 SAN FRANCISCO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 18% · 2019 33% · 2020 13% · 2021 60% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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
46% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
64% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nourish Sf Kitchen LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO 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 SAN FRANCISCO INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC (California) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,026,508 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,010,500). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $43,026,508 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,010,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO 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.
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 155 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