Meals on Wheels Marion Area Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351441869
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Marion, IN, USA
- Phone
- 7656644759
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,733
- Expenses
- $103,585
- Assets
- $102,726
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM GARTLAND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JIM GARTLAND (PRESIDENT)
- NORM WOLF (BOARD MEMBER)
- JENNIFER LANE RIEFLER (VICE PRESIDE)
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
To provide nutritionally adequate meals to homebound persons who, though ambulatory in their own environment and though able at times to leave their home with or without aid, are unable, through medical or physical disability, to purchase and prepare nourishing meals or to eat in a restaurant. The service provided is extended to the ill, disabled, or elderly who need the service regardless of age or income, without profit to the association.
What it reported doing in 2025
Purchased and delivered meals to disabled and homebound persons, utilizing volunteer drivers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $104K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.