Arizona · Nonprofit
MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC
MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,313,177 to it, the largest being ARMSTRONG MCDONALD FOUNDATION ($379,300). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona Inc does
Mission
Meal delivery - this is a volunteer-based program that preserves the health, dignity and independence of homebound adults by delivering medically-tailored meals five days a week. Clients are eligible if they are homebound, live within mobile meals' service area, and are unable to cook or shop for themselves. Clients receive two meals a day, a lunch and a dinner, monday through friday. Mobile meals opened its own kitchen and has been preparing the meals internally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mobile meals of southern arizona (mmsa) enhances the health, wellbeing, and independence of vulnerable adults and individuals with disabilities in pima county by providing healthy and medically tailored meals, and meaningful social connection. Through weekday meal delivery, caring volunteers ensure clients who cannot cook or shop for themselves receive essential nourishment and regular wellness checks. In fiscal year 2025, 199 mmsa volunteers delivered 90,000 meals to 796 clients.
$1,229,202 spentof which $360,136 as grants$416,751 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,229,202.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $3.3M (+44%).
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 12% · 2019 14% · 2020 21% · 2021 22% · 2022 12% · 2023 13% · 2024 18% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Beverly L'Don Sawyer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $84k → $617k.
8 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
40% 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 MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 44% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
60% of MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,313,177 to it, the largest being ARMSTRONG MCDONALD FOUNDATION ($379,300). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,313,177 in grants to MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- ARMSTRONG MCDONALD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $379,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 51 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