Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS
COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($40). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $58
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40
- Net assets
- $26k
What Common Sense Services for Seniors does
Mission
Common Sense Services for Seniors will work to strengthen peoples abilities and dignity with respect and integrity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization was forced to cease operations with covid mandates and is reviewing options to continue programming in the future. Since 2023, the organization is in the process of dissolving.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Adult day services: provide a safe place to participate in social and recreational activities with peers. Participants receive a nutritionally balanced noon meal and snacks. Prevents isolation and promotes rest for caregivers. Includes medication assistance, physical assistance, and personal care for adults ages 18 and up during 2024, the organization began a dissolution process. The dissolution is still in process at the time of this filing.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $29k (−19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lynne Zimmerman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS?
- COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($40). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40 in grants to COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON SENSE SERVICES FOR SENIORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing