Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels

Analysis

Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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, Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels reported income of $415k and spending of $463k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $278k to $415k (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jubilee Academy Inc ($415k), Second Chance Shop ($415k) and Community Action Partnership of Kern Foundation ($415k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $32k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $31k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 1 employees.