Meals on Wheels in Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge

Analysis

Meals on Wheels in Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge is a registered charity in United States, based in Woodbridge, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1977, 49 years ago. 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 in Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge reported income of $198k and spending of $202k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $206k to $198k (-3.5%), an average of -1.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Meals on Wheels in Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ngoc-Son Tinh-Xa Association Inc ($198k), Prospect Business Association ($198k) and Little League Baseball Inc ($198k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $17k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $17k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.