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MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC

MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC (Florida) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,168,140 to it, the largest being Senior Connection Center Inc ($13,759,649). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$13M
Revenue FY2024
77
Funders on record
$25M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
44/77 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 88 ($9.4M) Expenses 94 ($10.0M) Net assets 85 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 76 ($8.1M) Expenses 78 ($8.4M) Net assets 79 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 124 ($13M) Expenses 92 ($9.8M) Net assets 168 ($6.5M)2021 Revenue 146 ($16M) Expenses 98 ($10M) Net assets 308 ($12M)2022 Revenue 106 ($11M) Expenses 99 ($11M) Net assets 310 ($12M)2023 Revenue 105 ($11M) Expenses 114 ($12M) Net assets 301 ($12M)2024 Revenue 117 ($13M) Expenses 117 ($12M) Net assets 306 ($12M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (117)Net assets (306)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 17% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 16% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 270 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$5k
17
$548k
18
$279k
19
$3.4M
20
$5.1M
21
$659k
22
$949k
23
$71k
24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.0M.

13 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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 PLUS OF MANATEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 PLUS OF MANATEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% 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 PLUS OF MANATEE INC.

55%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 81% · 2019 90% · 2020 60% · 2021 61% · 2022 70% · 2023 77%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

38% of MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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

96% of MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
NY
NV
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 77 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.

State$41k
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Top programs
  • STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $41k
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $211
  • FEES - GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $127

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 PLUS OF MANATEE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 4%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE 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 PLUS OF MANATEE INC?
MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC (Florida) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,168,140 to it, the largest being Senior Connection Center Inc ($13,759,649). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC have?
IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $25,168,140 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC?
Senior Connection Center Inc is the largest funder on record, with $13,759,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE 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.

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 77funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing