Florida · Nonprofit
Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc
Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc (Florida) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,532,694 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,500,500). 39 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
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc does
Mission
Meals On Wheels serves approximately 1,000 individuals daily with a hot, nutritious meal delivered to their door by a caring volunteer. An additional 755 meals per day are prepared and delivered to community partners and mission based nonprofits. The encouraging words from volunteers, provides enrichment for the soul. For many of the homebound, a visit from a volunteer is the only human contact they will receive that day. Together we strengthen the community by caring for a segment of our population who are often forgotten and can not get out of the house.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homebound Meal Delivery: Meals On Wheels of Tampa's (MOWT) mission is "to nourish, enrich and strengthen the lives of seniors (62 and older) and individuals who have difficulty leaving their homes and are challenged to prepare meals". The delivery of daily hot meals by caring and trusted volunteers gives seniors and homebound citizens the opportunity to age in place with consistent balanced nutrition, dignity, safety, and independence. During fiscal year 2025, approximately 262,000 meals were delivered through our Homebound Meal Delivery program to more than 1,186 recipients. All meals are produced daily by professional staff in the MOWT commercial kitchen. We offer 3 menus to select from: Heart Healthy, Diabetic Friendly, and Renal Friendly. MOWT is meeting the specific dietary needs of the fastest growing segment of the community, our seniors, many of whom require healthy food delivered to their doorstep, at an affordable price, to age in place. At no extra charge, recipients also receive once a month delivery of fresh produce, an Annual Hurricane Pack, a Holiday Gift Bag, and birthday cake to ensure they are not forgotten and are well supported. MOWT requests a contribution…
$5,026,330 spent$3,277,929 earned by the program100% of program spendingSocial Connection: Research affirms what we have known anecdotally for years. Social connection is effective in making a profound difference in the lives of older adults and homebound citizens. A daily knock on the door from a MOWT volunteer bringing a hot meal, offering encouraging words and a vital safety check on isolated neighbors, is a crucial ingredient in the powerful impact of this mission. Volunteers are the heart and soul of MOWT. The volunteer is often the only person the recipient will talk to during the day. In FY 2025, 1,879 volunteers generously donated their time, vehicles, fuel, and compassion to improve the lives, outlook, and well-being of our recipients. Their gift of service allows us to deliver at an affordable price and provides the crucial social connection that means the world to adults isolated by age and/or health restrictions. The on-going recruitment of volunteers is essential to meet the growing demand of the mission.
Strengthening the Community: By joining together with the board of directors, corporate supporters, foundations, individuals, and civic and faith groups, together we strengthen the community through service and care of those citizens who are often forgotten simply because we do not see them in need as they live behind closed doors where they wait for help. Yet, their health and well-being are essential issues to address, not only because they deserve support but also because of the mounting expense of seniors' health care. This exploding segment of our society and the increasing cost of their medical needs demands we take every possible action to proactively ensure better health outcomes as seniors age. Good nutrition and daily social contact promote better aging results. The cost of a full year of meals ($2,008) is less than the cost of one night in a hospital, one visit to an ER, or 10 days in an assisted living facility. With aging Baby Boomers as the fastest growing segment of our population, the work of MOWT has never been more essential and impactful.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,026,330.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.8M to $6.8M (+80%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Stephen J King
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $588k → $511k.
16 of 69 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 Tampa 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 Tampa Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 Tampa Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 27% · 2019 61% · 2020 12% · 2021 76% · 2022 24% · 2023 30% — 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
42% of Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 Tampa 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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Meals on Wheels of Tampa 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Meals on Wheels of Tampa 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 Tampa Inc?
- Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc (Florida) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,532,694 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,500,500). 39 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 Tampa Inc have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $6,532,694 in grants to Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meals on Wheels of Tampa 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