Fort Bend Senior Citizens Meals On Wheels & Much Much More Inc
Fort Bend Senior Citizens Meals On Wheels & Much Much More Inc
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About this organization
Mission
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels (FBS) is committed to helping seniors remain independent by enhancing their quality of life through services and resources. FBS provides nutritious meals and support services to seniors, 60 years of age and over, regardless of income, in Fort Bend and Waller counties.
About
HOME DELIVERED MEALS - FORT BEND AND WALLER COUNTY: The goal is to promote better health for eligible homebound older persons by providing nutritious home-delivered meals.Clients must be 60 years of age or older and score a minimum of 20 on the Department of Aging and Disabilities Assessment. Eligibility is based on an assessment of: impairment in the ability to perform activities of daily living orinstrumental activities of daily living; frequency of a person leaving his or her home or need assistance to do so; ability to prepare nutritious meals and shop for food, their nutritional risk, and financial resources available to the senior.CASE MANAGEMENT - FBS provides individual assessments by a trained and degreed case manager to determine seniors needs in the areas of social services, nutrition and health care. Once an assessment is completed, FBS staff arrange for the appropriate services to be delivered and provide follow-up reviews to ensure all needs are being met. Through case management a participant is assessed for the following services: home delivered meals, nutrition education in the home, assessment of needs, and appropriate referral to other services.HOME DELIVERED MEALS - The meals meet at least 1/3 of the recommended daily allowance of all nutrients required by adults at least five days per week. FBS is now providing meals seven days per week; including five hot nutritious meals and on Friday two frozen meals are provided with the hot meal for the Saturday and Sunday meals. FBS also provides the homebound client a frozen holiday meal on or before the actual day of the holiday. In addition, through a waiver approved by the Department of Aging and Disability, some of our clients living in the rural communities receiveone hot and six frozen meals to consume throughout the week. These clients must be screened to ensure they are able to warm the meal and also receive telephone reassurance calls two times per week to ensure they are consuming the meals.EMERGENCY SHELF STABLE MEALS - Additionally, FBS provided 10 emergency shelf meals to each client to use during inclement weather when the agency is not able to make a delivery to clients. VOLUNTEERS - Volunteers, part time drivers, and site managers, are responsible for daily delivery of the meals. When volunteers deliver the meals, it reduces the operation cost for meal delivery which enables us to purchase more meals to serve seniors. Meals are delivered directly to the participants or an authorized caregiver. The clients must give the delivery person permission to enter their home. The Meals on Wheels program is more than just a meal delivery. Through our trained staff and volunteers, a homebound senior receives a warm smile, safety check to help ensure he or she is well and any other needs that are identified such as nutrition education may be addressed.OUTCOME: In 2018, FBS delivered 289,675 meals to 1,384 homebound eligible senior citizens in Fort Bend and Waller County. Through our annual satisfaction survey of the Home Delivered Meal Clients we have confirmed that the meals on wheels program 1) promotes better health for homebound elderly through improved nutrition and 2) alleviates the isolation of the homebound elderly by the daily visits during meal delivery.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit, as set forth in the filing, is “Fort bend seniors meals on wheels provides comprehensive services and programs including meals on wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, respite care, and more. each of these programs and services enables area seniors to remain in their homes and continue to be an integral part of the community for as long as possible.”.
When discussing its purpose, they were characterized as: “Fort bend seniors meals on wheels and much, much more is committed to helping seniors remain independent by enhancing their quality of life through services and resources including meals on wheels, congregate meals, and transportation.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally authorized to operate is TX, as reported.
- The form of the non-profit reports 50 employees as of 2020.
- Does not operate a hospital.
- Does not operate a school.
- Does not collect art.
- Does not provide credit counseling.
- Does not have foreign activities.
- Is not a donor advised fund.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$227,742.
- The remuneration of the CEO of the organization is based on an independent review and approval process.
- The organization has a written policy that describes how long it will retain documents.
- The organization has 12 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1974.
- The organization has a written policy that addresses conflicts of interest.
- The organization is required to file Schedule B.
- The organization is required to file Schedule O.
- The organization pays $1,168,986 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $312,627 in fundraising expenses.
- The organization provides Form 990 to its governing body.
- The organization pays grants to individuals.
- The organization has minutes of its meetings.
- The organization has a written whistleblower policy.
- The organization has fundraising events.
- The organization's financial statements were reviewed by an accountant.
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