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STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS

STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $723,480 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($573,186). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$425k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$723k
Net assets
$1.6M
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What State College Area Meals on Wheels does

Mission

To prepare and deliver nutritious, affordable meals to the ederly and disabled living within the state college school district to help maintain their quality of life and allow them to remain in their own homes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To prepare and deliver nutritious, affordable meals to the elderly and disabled living within the state college school district to help maintain their quality of life and allow them to remain in their own homes.

    $258,078 spent$69,065 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $258,078.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($622k) Expenses 100 ($305k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 41 ($254k) Expenses 97 ($294k) Net assets 89 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 46 ($287k) Expenses 92 ($279k) Net assets 102 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 79 ($491k) Expenses 125 ($382k) Net assets 120 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 57 ($354k) Expenses 117 ($356k) Net assets 129 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 41 ($254k) Expenses 104 ($316k) Net assets 106 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 59 ($367k) Expenses 112 ($342k) Net assets 119 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 68 ($425k) Expenses 119 ($362k) Net assets 123 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (119)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

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 $1.7M to $1.4M (−18%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$317k
’17
−$40k
’18
$9k
’19
$109k
’20
−$2k
’21
−$62k
’22
$25k
’23
$63k
’24
6.8
months of
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

Michael Brindley

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed1919181817151513
Joined·+0+2+1+0+4+3+0
No longer listed·0311632
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $48k → $95k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS’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

STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS.

79%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 83% · 2020 74% · 2021 74% · 2022 82% · 2023 87% — 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

67% of STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $134k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states.

PA
NJ
VA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like STATE COLLEGE AREA 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 Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 21%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS?
STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $723,480 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($573,186). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $723,480 in grants to STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS?
CENTRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $573,186 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STATE COLLEGE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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