Ohio · Nonprofit
Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of
Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,580 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION ($272,109). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of does
Mission
Provide nutrition services, in-home support services, information/referral, and transportation services to older adults in fairfield county
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Nutrition services: home delivered meal service - home delivered meals are provided to older adults, aged 60 or older, living in fairfield county. These meals are prepared and delivered daily, m-f, in accordance with the older adults care plan. They are nutritionally balanced and approved by a registered dietician. Congregate site meal service - congregate site meals are available to older adults, age 60 or older, living in fairfield county. Congregate meal sites are open daily, m-f, and offer older adults the opportunity to engage in a social setting while receiving a nutritionally balanced meal. The sites reduce senior isolation and hunger. Nutrition transportation - transportation service transports an older adult, age 60 or older, living in fairfield county, from one place to another through the use of our agency vehicles. We provide nutrition transportation to lucys cafe congregate meal site and to grocery stores. Our service is curb to curb. Aging services: personal emergency response system - emergency response systems are provided to older adults, age 60 or older, living in fairfield county. These units are worn by the older adult and are used in the event that the older…
$5,027,493 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,027,493.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.7M to $5.6M (+20%).
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 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 3% · 2020 7% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Anna Tobin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $62k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Older Adult Alternatives of’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 Older Adult Alternatives of leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Older Adult Alternatives of.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — 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
50% of Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
71% of Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of'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 $126k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k 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.
Against its field
Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 Older Adult Alternatives of?
- Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,580 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION ($272,109). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $436,580 in grants to Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $272,109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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