Meals on Wheels of Odessa
Legal name: Meals on Wheels of Odessa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751553306
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Odessa, TX, US
- Phone
- 432-333-6451
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $738,137
- Expenses
- $833,422
- Assets
- $1,865,760
- Liabilities
- $61,394
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Craig Stoker (Executive Director)
- Meredith McKeehan (President)
- Cristal Villegas-Levario (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Craig Stoker (Executive Director): $154,470 total reported compensation
- Tammy Mason (Finance Coordinator): $69,375 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Clients served month to month grew steadily as we increased our capacity and service area. In total we delivered 60,200 meals during the four month period. We had 712 volunteers who provided 11,444 hours of service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $649K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $154K · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $247K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.