Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731125389
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Phone
- 9186274103
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,135,535
- Expenses
- $5,292,058
- Assets
- $14,902,735
- Liabilities
- $1,057,029
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jay Betz (President & CEO)
- Katie Oatsvall (Former CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jay Betz (President & CEO): $182,088 total reported compensation
- Katie Oatsvall (Former CEO): $40,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide nutritious meals, wellness checks and caring contact to elderly, disabled, and other homebound individuals in Tulsa and the surrounding areas. By combating the triple threats of aging - hunger, isolation, and loss of independence - we empower seniors to age with dignity in their own home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Leaders like you move our community forward and bring justice and healing to historically underserved and under-resourced neighborhoods. With your help, disabled and homebound seniors will receive nutritious meals, wellness checks and care navigation case management, as well as medical care through our strategic partnerships.For 50 years, MOWMT has supported the dignity and independence of frail seniors as they age in their own homes. In 2024, the generosity of our donors helped deliver more than 600,000 meals to 3,285 individuals across the Tulsa metro, including Bixby, Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso, Glenpool, Sand Springs, and Sapulpa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.82; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.