Meals on Wheels in Metuchen-edison-woodbridge

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222063538
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Woodbridge, NJ, USA
Phone
7326344141
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$203,623
Expenses
$204,650
Assets
$15,528
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lloyd Leventhal (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Marie Holmes (Program Director): $39,681 total reported compensation
  • Julie Harrison (Food Supervisor/Packer): $34,320 total reported compensation
  • Rita Kane (Food Packer): $21,240 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide and deliver hot and cold meals to homebound seniors and disabled persons. Number of persons benefitted during 2024 varied between 50 to 60 individuals.

What it reported doing in 2024

Meals on Wheels in Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge provides and delivers meals to homebound and senior citizens. Prepared food is provided by JFK Hospital in Edison, where our organization employs two part-time food packers. A hot meal, hot soup, and cold items (sandwich, salad, slice of bread, margarine, milk, fruit, etc.) are delivered Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) by approximately 75 volunteers, using their own vehicles. We never stopped delivering meals during the pandemic and continue to do so. All our employees and volunteers followed CDC guidelines (masking, social distancing, etc.) during that time. Volunteers are still not allowed into JFK Hospital. Instead, our paid packers bring the filled hot and cold containers outside to volunteer vehicles. After volunteers complete deliveries, they return to JFK Hospital and the food supervisor comes outside to retrieve empty hot and cold containers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -33% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $190K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.