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MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC

EIN 31-1168281 MERRILLVILLE, IN

Revenue 2025
$4,775,641
Expenses 2025
$4,920,939

Program services were 81.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
8446 VIRGINIA ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

WE PREPARE AND DELIVER ESSENTIAL NUTRITIOUS MEALS TO OUR COMMUNITY, PROMOTING HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND INDEPENDENCE OF ALL, WITH THE SUPPORT OF A DIVERSE AND ENGAGED COMMUNITY NETWORK.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO DELIVER NUTRITIOUS MEALS TO THOSE IN NEED WITH THE SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS.

  • PROVIDING MEALS OF OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST INDIANA. APPROXIMATELY 1,932 UNDUPLICATED PERSONS UTILIZED THIS SERVICE, RECEIVING 519,249 MEALS.

    Expenses $4,005,637 · Revenue $3,220,385

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • AMY BLAKER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • APRIL GORDON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK MIX

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES KATONA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LASHUNG WILLIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHAEL WRIGHT

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD LONG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VERNE P SEEHAUSEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICTORIA BLINK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WARREN JOHNSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLAUDIA JONES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACQUELINE WEBER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC CULP

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GINA FEZLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN ELINKOWSKI

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $156,641
    From this org
    $156,641
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $143,625
    Bonus
    $1,250
    Other
    $11,766
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $156,641

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,775,641
    Expenses
    $4,920,939
    Contributions
    $1,368,868
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,130,306
    Expenses
    $4,074,468
    Contributions
    $956,820
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,471,765
    Expenses
    $3,545,540
    Contributions
    $805,157
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,391,387
    Expenses
    $2,975,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,276,500

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,955,901
    Expenses
    $2,714,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,848,000

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,383,936
    Expenses
    $2,421,280
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,610,006

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,629,937
    Expenses
    $2,395,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,604,047

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,324,178
    Expenses
    $2,246,556
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,355,853

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,065,563
    Expenses
    $2,189,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,258,859

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,253,114
    Expenses
    $2,207,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,365,913

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,899,750
    Expenses
    $2,155,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,331,146

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,070,313
    Expenses
    $2,192,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,582,565

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.