Texas · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO
MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO (Texas) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,246,906 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ($2,503,691). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Meals on Wheels San Antonio does
Mission
To provide services which focus on nourishing lives, enabling independence and caring for the most frail and isolated residents in the greater san antonio region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nutrition services include both home-delivered meals and contract meals. The home-delivered meals program prepares and delivers nutritious, home-delivered meals and provides essential daily safety checks to homebound older adults and disabled individuals in bexar, atascosa, comal, edwards, frio, guadalupe, karnes, medina, uvalde, and wilson counties. This program is supported through public contributions, grants, and government funding. The contract meals program provides and delivers meals to city of san antonio senior centers and other senior nutrition sites throughout the region.
$15,695,702 spentof which $7,996 as grants$3,939,123 earned by the program90% of program spendingOther services include alzheimer's services, animeals, friendly visitor, and comfy casas. Alzheimer's services are provided through grace place alzheimer's center, the only nonprofit adult day center in the region specializing in alzheimer's and dementia-related care. Animeals supports seniors by providing pet food and basic supplies to help them care for their companion animals. Friendly visitor offers regular companionship to help reduce loneliness and social isolation among homebound seniors and disabled adults. Comfy casas improves health and safety by addressing home repair and accessibility needs for seniors and disabled adults. These services are supported by program fees, public donations, and grants from government agencies.
$1,758,342 spentof which $478,760 as grants10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,454,044.
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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $40M (+45%).
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 44% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% · 2024 49% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Vinsen Faris
CEO
Board chair
Sarah Mclaughlin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $71k → $1.4M.
18 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $45k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Meals on Wheels Texas). These are real filings, and they are not money MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO raised.
From the IRS filings of MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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 SAN ANTONIO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 SAN ANTONIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 33% · 2019 67% · 2020 21% · 2021 17% · 2022 44% · 2023 34% — 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
43% of MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO'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
93% of MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Government funding MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $287k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$287k
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 SAN ANTONIO
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mowsa Real Estate · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO?
- MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO (Texas) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,246,906 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ($2,503,691). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $10,246,906 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO?
- UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $2,503,691 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 96 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