Texas · Nonprofit
MEALS ON WHEELS WACO
MEALS ON WHEELS WACO (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $943,195 to it, the largest being COOPER FOUNDATION ($300,273). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $943k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Meals on Wheels Waco does
Mission
Meals on Wheels Waco nourishes the bodies, minds, and spirits of older adults in the heart of texas through meals, transportation, activities, and volunteer support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals on wheels is a nutrition program for people sixty years or older who are homebound and/or are unable to purchase or prepare meals. Lunches are delivered five days-a-week to the homes of older adults by volunteers. The meals are prepared by the senior nutrition kitchen located in waco, tx. Meals on wheels serves older adults whose resources are consumed by housing and health care needs. Little income is left for the purchase of food. Total meals provided were 170,674, serving a total of 1,137 clients.
$1,541,002 spent$39,090 earned by the program85% of program spendingTransportation system; ctsm transit is a transportation system for clients in mclennan county in collaboration with waco transit system. The total number of trips provided were 6,289.
$202,667 spent$18,274 earned by the program11% of program spendingSenior centers provide a place for a nutritious lunch, health screening, educational, recreational and volunteer opportunities. Senior center staff members often seek collaborative help for the center clients. They may contact the mclennan county health dept, adult protective services, a home health organization, or a benefits counselor at the area agency on aging. They may help the recipient access our own transportation services so that they will be able to visit a clinic, a dialysis center, or the center itself. Twelve senior centers are operated in the three counties. In the rural areas, the senior centers are also the distribution point for the homebound delivered meals. A total of 22,923 meals were provided at the centers during the year, serving a total of 387 clients.
$61,678 spent$3,863 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,805,347.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+19%).
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 59% · 2018 57% · 2019 59% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 55% · 2023 54% · 2024 56% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MEALS ON WHEELS WACO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Debra King
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $47k → $161k.
3 of 15 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $292k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Waco Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MEALS ON WHEELS WACO raised.
From the IRS filings of MEALS ON WHEELS WACO’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 WACO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
73% 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 WACO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 62% · 2019 45% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 42% · 2023 37% — 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
75% of MEALS ON WHEELS WACO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
65% of MEALS ON WHEELS WACO's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 WACO's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MEALS ON WHEELS WACO
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WACO?
- MEALS ON WHEELS WACO (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $943,195 to it, the largest being COOPER FOUNDATION ($300,273). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEALS ON WHEELS WACO have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $943,195 in grants to MEALS ON WHEELS WACO, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEALS ON WHEELS WACO?
- COOPER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEALS ON WHEELS WACO 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 15 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