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MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC

MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,860 to it, the largest being OBICI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($174,755). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$326k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$543k
Net assets
$155k
11/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Meals on Wheels of Suffolk & Isle of Wight Inc does

Mission

To deliver meals to the homebound, disabled, and convalescent who are unable to prepare their meals. In addition, volunteers deliver a personal connection that battles isolation so prevalent with homebound individuals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Suffolk meals on wheels, inc. Delivers meals to residents living in the city of suffolk and the county of isle of wight. In 2025, 30,076 meals were delivered to 179 individuals.

    $254,171 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,171.

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 ($288k) Expenses 100 ($272k) Net assets 100 ($204k)2018 Revenue 83 ($240k) Expenses 97 ($265k) Net assets 88 ($179k)2019 Revenue 86 ($247k) Expenses 104 ($282k) Net assets 70 ($144k)2020 Revenue 103 ($298k) Expenses 109 ($297k) Net assets 71 ($145k)2021 Revenue 94 ($270k) Expenses 107 ($291k) Net assets 61 ($124k)2022 Revenue 103 ($297k) Expenses 103 ($280k) Net assets 69 ($141k)2023 Revenue 86 ($249k) Expenses 99 ($269k) Net assets 59 ($121k)2024 Revenue 113 ($326k) Expenses 107 ($292k) Net assets 76 ($155k)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (107)Net assets (76)

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 $180k to $146k (−19%).

$206k
$180k
$146k
$147k
$129k
$143k
$124k
$157k
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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: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
−$25k
’18
−$35k
’19
$683
’20
−$21k
’21
$17k
’22
−$20k
’23
$34k
’24
1.8
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

Wesley King

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1513121213787
Joined·+0+3+1+3+1+1+2
No longer listed·2412703
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $102k → $35k.

3 of 13 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 SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT 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 SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

26% 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 SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC.

32%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 61% · 2019 49% · 2020 33% · 2021 33% · 2022 21% · 2023 43% — 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

71% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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

98% of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

OH
VA

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

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k 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 SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC?
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,860 to it, the largest being OBICI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($174,755). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $542,860 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC?
OBICI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $174,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 13 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