California · Nonprofit
SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE
SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,432,065 to it, the largest being Agency on AgingArea 4 ($2,243,364). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $816k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $791k
What Sierra Senior Services Dba Meals on Wheels Tahoe does
Mission
To deliver nutritious meals to older adults facing food insecurity that reduces isolation and enables them to continue living independently for as long as safely possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sierra senior services is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization established in 2001 to provide meals to seniors through the meals on wheels program. This is an unduplicated program in eastern placer county, ca; eastern nevada county, ca; and incline village, nv. Each week we provide over 800 meals a week to residents in truckee and on the north and west shores of lake tahoe.
$735,310 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $735,310.
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 2022 to 2023, from $651k to $847k (+30%).
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 53% · 2018 50% · 2019 54% · 2020 42% · 2021 52% · 2022 58% · 2023 59% · 2024 63% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Vivian Ruiz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $280k → $551k.
9 of 28 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 SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE’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
SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 56% · 2019 65% · 2020 54% · 2021 63% · 2022 68% · 2023 73% — 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
50% of SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE'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
98% of SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $702k 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
SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE: 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 SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE?
- SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,432,065 to it, the largest being Agency on AgingArea 4 ($2,243,364). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,432,065 in grants to SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE?
- Agency on AgingArea 4 is the largest funder on record, with $2,243,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 28 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