Oregon · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC (Oregon) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,248,273 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 131 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 206
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Meals on Wheels People Inc does
Mission
We enrich the lives of seniors and assist them in maintaining independence by providing nutritious food, human connections, and social support. We also use our expertise and capacity to serve other nutritionally at-risk populations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center operations - the organization's meal sites have the responsibility of providing a healthy meal and socialization programming for seniors living within their geographic area. Nutrition services include group dining on site and meals delivered to homebound clients (meals-on-wheels). Congregate meals provided totaled approximately 73,000 for the year ended june 30, 2025. Centers are located in a variety of settings, including senior centers, multicultural centers, housing authority buildings, parks and recreation buildings, and churches.in addition to providing meals, centers coordinate with other community agencies to provide opportunities for enrichment to the lives of seniors through activities, speakers, field trips, and health-related issues including clinics for foot care and blood pressure monitoring. All new meals-on-wheels clients are visited by an outreach worker who works with the client to determine how the organization can meet their nutritional needs and make referrals to other community resources as needed. Clients are revisited on an annual basis. Home-delivered meals totaled approximately 1,002,000 for the year ended june 30, 2025. Additionally, the…
$8,944,702 spent$2,499,837 earned by the program60% of program spendingKitchen operations - the central kitchen provides meals for 13 service centers and 7 satellite locations. The medically tailored meals (mtm) are prepared in bulk, divided, and shipped to each center. Mtms are designed to improve health outcomes and increase client satisfaction. Approximately 6,400 meals are prepared daily. Meals are also provided to non-organization centers at 18 contract sites. Contract meals prepared for other organizations totaled approximately 413,000 for the year ended june 30, 2025. Approximately 286,000 of these meals consist of raw food boxes provided through meals 4 kids.
$5,951,568 spent$2,507,707 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,896,270.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $27M to $40M (+48%).
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: 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% · 2024 22% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Suzanne Washington
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose $810k → $2.1M.
28 of 206 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 PEOPLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 206 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 PEOPLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
69% 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 PEOPLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 70% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% — broadly stable.
“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
40% of MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC'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
53% of MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE 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 $13M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 PEOPLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $446k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$421k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$25k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$343
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC (Oregon) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,248,273 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 131 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 206 organizations giving $28,248,273 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC, 131 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 206 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