Meals on Wheels-La Mirada

Analysis

Meals on Wheels-La Mirada is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Mirada, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1976, 50 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 June 2023, Meals on Wheels-La Mirada reported income of $88k and spending of $122k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2023, income fell from $206k to $88k (-57%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 85% 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-La Mirada sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile, and in the 36th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($88k), Wenatchee Valley Follies Guild and Childrens Foundation ($88k) and National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution ($88k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 30% and program service revenue 70% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $21k. At year end it held assets of $130k against liabilities of $653, net assets of $129k. It reported 5 employees.