Meals on Wheels Western Michigan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382535537
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Grandville, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6164593111
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,160,293
- Expenses
- $7,625,974
- Assets
- $8,240,901
- Liabilities
- $1,752,439
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANA FILMORE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHANNAN HEADS (PRESIDENT)
- LISA WIDEMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA WIDEMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $148,965 total reported compensation
- KURTIS BOEVE (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $121,355 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 quality nutrition services in a supportive environment to promote the health and independence of older adults.
What it reported doing in 2024
The home delivered meals program provides a packaged, freshly prepared, dinner-type meal delivered around the noon hour to homebound seniors throughout west Michigan. A lighter second meal is available to those homebound who need it, which is also delivered around the noon hour. These meals follow one-third rda and meet or exceed Michigan standards for senior meal programs. This program serves senior citizens unable to prepare nutritious meals for themselves, and who are unable to leave their homes without assistance. Seniors who are participating in this program receive semi-annual visits from mowwm assessment personnel who assess the client for continued eligibility and provide information and referrals about other services. 532,819 meals were delivered, including those provided through the medicaid waiver program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th 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 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: 6.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.