Meals on Wheels Diablo Region

Analysis

Meals on Wheels Diablo Region is a registered charity in United States, based in Walnut Creek, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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 June 2023, Meals on Wheels Diablo Region reported income of $5.2m and spending of $5.0m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $2.7m to $5.2m (+91%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Meals on Wheels Diablo Region sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Challenge Center Inc ($5.2m), Twilight Haven ($5.2m) and Larche Daybreak ($5.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.9m. At year end it held assets of $6.3m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $5.0m. It reported 87 employees.