Meals on Wheels Jamestown Area Inc

Analysis

Meals on Wheels Jamestown Area Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Jamestown, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Meals on Wheels Jamestown Area Inc reported income of $560k and spending of $557k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $560k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Meals on Wheels Jamestown Area Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 68th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Marshall County Family Resource Network Inc ($560k), America World Adoption Association ($560k) and Alamance Elder Care Inc ($560k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 12% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $89k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $243k. At year end it held assets of $217k against liabilities of $97k, net assets of $120k. It reported 17 employees.