North Carolina · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC
MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,663,642 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,778). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $893k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Meals on Wheels Orange County Nc does
Mission
The mission of mowocnc is to nourish and enrich the lives of older adults through meal delivery and personal connection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025 meals on wheels orange county, nc delivered approximately 69,300 meals along with 53,200 friendly check ins, monday - friday, to older adults, homebound adults, adults with disabilities or those convalescing who do not have access to, or the ability to prepare a healthy meal.
$587,015 spent$39,348 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $587,015.
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 $467k to $1.2M (+153%).
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 9% · 2018 14% · 2019 14% · 2020 8% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 27% · 2024 19% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Rachel Sobel Bearman
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah Knight
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $173k → $205k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ORANGE COUNTY NC’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 ORANGE COUNTY NC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
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 ORANGE COUNTY NC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 32% · 2023 29% — 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
69% of MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
51% of MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC'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 $808k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $856k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 ORANGE COUNTY NC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 ORANGE COUNTY NC: 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 ORANGE COUNTY NC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,663,642 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,778). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,663,642 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $290,778 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 22 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