Meals on Wheels of Ridgefield

Analysis

Meals on Wheels of Ridgefield is a registered charity in United States, based in Ridgefield, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1975, 51 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 of Ridgefield reported income of $464k and spending of $432k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $544k to $464k (-15%), an average of -3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 42% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Meals on Wheels of Ridgefield sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rockford Day Nursery ($464k), Scarlet Rope Project ($464k) and Alabama Counseling Association ($464k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $84k. At year end it held assets of $4.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $4.1m. It reported 9 employees.