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Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc

Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc (Florida) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,141,349 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($492,900). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
69
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$5.3M
43/69 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc does

Mission

Preparation & delivery of nutritious meals to sarasota county residents five days per week who are elderly, homebound, or unable to prepare a meal for themself.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Meal Service Program: Prepare and deliver nutritious meals to homebound and elderly residents Monday-Friday. Clients pay for services on a sliding scale based on income. In 2025, we provided 119,287 meals to 886 clients; 56% of clients received our Meal Service Program free of charge. We rely on 50+ volunteers each day to deliver the hot meals, social connection and a wellness check.

    $846,903 spent$157,965 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. Pet Love Program: Assist homebound clients with cat and dog food. For seniors living alone, their pet may be the closest companion and one of their only sources of consistent comfort. Pets play a very important role in the life of a homebound older adult, providing socialization and enhancing their physical and mental health and well-being.

    $25,583 spent
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $872,486.

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 ($625k) Expenses 100 ($780k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 125 ($778k) Expenses 99 ($771k) Net assets 97 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 132 ($823k) Expenses 126 ($983k) Net assets 101 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 346 ($2.2M) Expenses 194 ($1.5M) Net assets 141 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 235 ($1.5M) Expenses 170 ($1.3M) Net assets 150 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 167 ($1.0M) Expenses 173 ($1.3M) Net assets 116 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 340 ($2.1M) Expenses 150 ($1.2M) Net assets 175 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 294 ($1.8M) Expenses 135 ($1.1M) Net assets 221 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 281 ($1.8M) Expenses 145 ($1.1M) Net assets 262 ($5.3M)
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Revenue (281)Expenses (145)Net assets (262)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $3.6M (+41%).

$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.9M
$3.1M
$2.6M
$3.6M
$4.5M
$5.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 7% · 2020 17% · 2021 5% · 2022 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$155k
’17
$8k
’18
−$160k
’19
$654k
’20
$145k
’21
−$302k
’22
$956k
’23
$786k
’24
$628k
’25
5.6
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.

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Listed81111111551299
Joined·+3+0+0+6+5+12+0+2
No longer listed·000215532
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $77k → $602k.

8 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Sarasota Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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 Sarasota Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

45% 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 Sarasota Inc.

16%
largest funder
32%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 28% · 2019 14% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% — 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

44% of Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

77% of Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

VT
IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CO
MO
VA
DE
NC
DC
AL
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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

Organizations like Meals on Wheels of Sarasota 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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 Sarasota Inc?
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc (Florida) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,141,349 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($492,900). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc have?
IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $3,141,349 in grants to Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $492,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Meals on Wheels of Sarasota 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 69 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