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WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS

WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,847 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION ($115,400). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$198k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$207k
Net assets
$393k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What West Shore Meals on Wheels does

Mission

Prepare and deliver nutritious meals to the elderly, disabled, convalescing and others who are unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Prepare and deliver nutritious meals to the elderly, disabled, convalescing and others who are unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves. The service is provided five days a week, fifty-two weeks (except holidays)per year for approximately 200 recipients.

    $172,228 spent$105,345 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. Prepare and deliver nutritious meals to the elderly, disabled, convalescing and others who are unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves. The service is provided five days a week, fifty-two weeks except holidays)per year for approximately 200 recipients.

    $6,492 spent
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $178,720.

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 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($119k) Net assets 100 ($191k)2018 Revenue 97 ($178k) Expenses 107 ($127k) Net assets 126 ($242k)2019 Revenue 92 ($168k) Expenses 110 ($131k) Net assets 146 ($279k)2020 Revenue 87 ($159k) Expenses 111 ($132k) Net assets 160 ($306k)2021 Revenue 106 ($194k) Expenses 129 ($153k) Net assets 181 ($347k)2022 Revenue 85 ($156k) Expenses 137 ($163k) Net assets 178 ($340k)2023 Revenue 125 ($228k) Expenses 162 ($192k) Net assets 196 ($375k)2024 Revenue 106 ($193k) Expenses 154 ($183k) Net assets 201 ($385k)2025 Revenue 109 ($198k) Expenses 161 ($191k) Net assets 205 ($393k)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (161)Net assets (205)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 2017 to 2018, from $191k to $242k (+26%).

$191k
$242k
$279k
$306k
$347k
$341k
$376k
$386k
$400k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

32% of WEST SHORE 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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
$50k
’18
$37k
’19
$27k
’20
$41k
’21
−$7k
’22
$35k
’23
$10k
’24
$7k
’25
2.6
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.

Board chair

Nick Dipetro

Rr/lw chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed911999101099
Joined·+6+2+3+0+4+0+3+0
No longer listed·44303040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $24k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 WEST SHORE 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

WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

60% 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 WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS.

56%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 53% — 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.

Where its funders are

56% of WEST SHORE 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 $91k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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

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’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $207k to it.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WEST SHORE 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS?
WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,847 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION ($115,400). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $206,847 in grants to WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS?
COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 7 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