Whittier Meals On Wheels Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
952798666
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Whittier, CA, USA
Phone
5626982750
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,818
Expenses
$72,395
Assets
$249,320
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CINDY BELLAVARY (President)
  • STEPHANIE DICKINSON (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • CINDY BELLAVARY (President)
  • STEPHANIE DICKINSON (Vice President)
  • MELISSA HILL (Trustee)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our sole purpose, since its inception in july of 1971, is making available, healthy meals to persons unable to prepare adequate meals for themselves. This includes people who are confined in their homes due to illness, accident, convalescence, age, or other reasons. The meals are currently prepared under the direction of a dietician at prebyterian intercommunity hospital. Clients pay about the same amount charged us by the hospital. There is an approval process for granting of a full or partial subsidy for persons in need of financial assistance. Our approximately 200 volunteers deliver the meals, consisting of a hot and a cold meal with a choice of milk and juice or juice only, monday through friday. We use a nutritious and varied menu. The amounts of sodium and carbohydrates per day are avergages, not exact amounts for every meal, based on the recommended daily allowances of 2,300 or less milligrams combined. An additional valuable benefit of our service is a short visit by our volun

What it reported doing in 2025

Deliver meals to shut-ins using volunteer labor and volunteer transportation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 79% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 54
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.44; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.