Meals on Wheels of Cheyenne Inc

Analysis

Meals on Wheels of Cheyenne Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Cheyenne, WY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1970, 56 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 Cheyenne Inc reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.7m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.1m to $1.7m (-17%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 81% 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 Cheyenne Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within WY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Vincent Depaul Society of Sauk Prairie-Roxbury Inc ($1.7m), Senior Citizens Service Inc ($1.7m) and Fundacion MMM Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% and program service revenue 7.6% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $101k (6.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $425k. At year end it held assets of $6.3m against liabilities of $324k, net assets of $6.0m. It reported 10 employees.