Meals on Wheels of the Palm Beaches Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272891297
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5618026979
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,940,730
- Expenses
- $1,747,735
- Assets
- $3,904,815
- Liabilities
- $108,944
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA CALZADILLA (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PAMELA CALZADILLA (PRESIDENT & CEO): $130,097 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Meals on wheels of the palm beaches mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound seniors by delivering fresh food daily with compassion and love.
What it reported doing in 2024
This past fiscal year, our greatest community impact was reaching a milestone we had never achieved beforesurpassing 100,000 meals. In total, 105,336 meals were delivered to the doors of over 650 local homebound seniors. Meeting their rising housing, medical, transportation and food costs has become unsustainable for the thousands of seniors who live on incomes not far above the poverty level. To compound it, those with physical mobility limitations find it largely impossible to reach places where they might find affordable options or even free pantry food. While our program is designed as a sliding-scale cost-sharing model, more than half of the food we provided this past year, 53% was delivered at no cost to the recipient.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd 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; 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: 40.6%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 34 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.