Altadena Meals on Wheels
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237297780
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Altadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6267940313
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,739
- Expenses
- $36,976
- Assets
- $116,535
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shannon Anderson (President)
- John Rosewell (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Shannon Anderson (President)
- John Rosewell (Vice President)
- Mike Dorr (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Altadena Meals on Wheels is a volunteer-based nonprofit that delivers hot, nutritious meals to homebound seniors in Altadena, helping them stay healthy, nourished, and independent in their own homes. Through compassionate service and daily volunteer contact, AMOW supports vulnerable residents facing illness, recovery, aging, and food insecurity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided weekday home-delivered hot meals to homebound seniors and other residents in Altadena who were unable to prepare or obtain nutritious meals due to age, illness, or recovery, helping them remain healthy and independent in their homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.3%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 66.9%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.15; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.3% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.