Colorado · Nonprofit
NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS
NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS (Colorado) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,442,653 to it, the largest being VIOLET M JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($776,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Nourish Meals on Wheels does
Mission
Nourish Meals on Wheels enriches the lives of seniors and others in south metro denver by providing nutritious meals and services that promote dignity, well-being and independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nourish Meals on Wheels delivers over 4,800 meals weekly to older(60+)and homebound adults in south metro denver. Services include daily delivery of hot weekday meals, frozen weekend meals, pet food and non-perishable groceries for clients with the most need. For the fiscal year ending 6/30/2024 Nourish Meals on Wheels delivered 251,166 meals to 1300 unduplicated individuals. 41% of the meals were fully subsidized and 32% were partially subsidized.
$1,412,699 spent100% of program spendingFrom july 2024 through june 2025, Nourish Meals on Wheels delivered weekly supplemental, non-perishable groceries to all clients, to help ensure they had food in their pantry and possibly save a trip to the grocery store. Over 3,600 bags of groceries were delivered.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,412,699.
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 2019 to 2020, from $769k to $2.9M (+277%).
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 14% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 22% · 2021 6% · 2022 14% · 2023 7% · 2024 11% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $126k → $391k.
12 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% 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 NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 29% · 2019 25% · 2020 38% · 2021 18% · 2022 29% · 2023 38% — 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
44% of NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS'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
52% of NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS is better cushioned 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 NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS
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 Colorado
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS?
- NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS (Colorado) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,442,653 to it, the largest being VIOLET M JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($776,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,442,653 in grants to NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS?
- VIOLET M JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $776,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 54 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