Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,404 to it, the largest being Greater Erie Community Action Committee ($218,613). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $781k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $575k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc does
Mission
Since 1971, we have continuously served Erie's seniors through a legion of caring volunteers, delivering meals from only a few days to over 45 years. Our network of volunteers and staff members are helping to achieve the goal of eliminating senior hunger by delivering nutritious meals and building personal and community connections every day. We enable people to age at home with dignity by providing a compassionate check-in, nutritious meals, and grocery delivery
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A total of 25,550 meals were bought and delivered for an average of 75 clients who have diagnosed medical disabilities and require additional services. Service is provided M-F. This program is provided by the UPMC Health Plan where clients are given an eligibility card that is presented to request services from UPMC.
$226,169 spent43% of program spendingA total of 17,019 meals were bought and delivered to an average of 81 clients each day (M-F). These clients are able to pay a fee for this service and request delivery of meals due to poor health, handicap, mental incapacity, or lack of ability to prepare meals for themselves. Our caring volunteers also provide a daily check on them as most are homebound and live alone.
$159,009 spent30% of program spendingA total of 8,674 meals were bought and delivered to an average of 26 clients. These clients are Erie County Veterans who are over the age of 60 and must show a proof of service to qualify. Service is provided M-F
$78,441 spent15% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: A total of 25,550 meals were bought and delivered for an average of 75 clients who have diagnosed medical disabilities and require additional services. Service is provided M-F. This program is provided by the UPMC Health Plan where clients are given an eligibility card that is presented to request services from UPMC.
$61,073 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $524,692.
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 $2.1M to $2.4M (+16%).
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.
31% of Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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
Jennifer Hoffman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $109k → $54k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc’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
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 64% · 2019 87% · 2020 51% · 2021 80% · 2022 59% · 2023 62% — 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
29% of Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
81% of Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k 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
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels 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 Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc?
- Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,404 to it, the largest being Greater Erie Community Action Committee ($218,613). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $575,404 in grants to Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc?
- Greater Erie Community Action Committee is the largest funder on record, with $218,613 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing