SHAKER HEIGHTS BEACHWOOD MEALS ON WHEELS Meals on Wheels Shaker
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341374145
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Shaker Heights, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2169916376
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,626
- Expenses
- $83,259
- Assets
- $52,005
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kerianne Hearns (President)
- Joylen Kent (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kerianne Hearns (President)
- Joylen Kent (Vice President)
- Julie Brouhard (Secretary)
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
Meals on Wheels Shaker (MOW) is an independent community service agency whose dedicated volunteers deliver affordable, nutritious meals of superior quality to residents of Shaker Heights, Beachwood and University Heights who are unable to provide for themselves. This service assists our subscribers in maintaining their health and well-being. We are the key to independent living.
What it reported doing in 2025
Meals on Wheels Shaker Heights serves the citizens of Shaker Heights, Beachwood, University Heights and some parts of Cleveland and Warrensville Heights. Clients range in age from 25 to 98 and do not have to prove a need to eligible for service. We offer prepared meals seven days a week consisting of a lunch and a hot dinner entrée of a starch, vegetable, and protein. Included in lunch is a sandwich, chips or cookie and a drink. Occasionally the meals are supplemented with soup. All meals meet the established Federal nutrition guidelines. Meals are home delivered Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Cost to the clients range from $6.50 for dinner only to $10.00 per day for the two meals. We served 11,643 meals in 2025. Our 74 volunteers contributed 4,000 hours in support of our mission during the year. We are now subsidizing 100% of our clients averaging about $3.25 per client per daily meals. In addition to delivering food, we also provide a check of our client's well-being and have frequently in the past needed to take action to insure a client's safety and continued independence.
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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.