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COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC
COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,320,040 to it, the largest being SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ($833,212). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City Inc does
Mission
Liveon ny represents the diverse network of nonprofit organizations that help older new yorkers thrive in their communities. Through advocacy, mobilization and coalition building, we advance systemic change to ensure that new york is an equitable and inclusive place to age regardless of wealth, racial disparities and other barriers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Liveon provided valuable training and technical assistance to approximately 1,885 people, using a variety of methods and forums: annual conference on aging: on january 28, 2025, we hosted the 35th edition of this event, we hosted 4 virtual roundtable meetings to meet a burgeoning need for accurate,updated information on rapidly evolving federal policy and funding changes. Liveon hosted total of 7 different workgroups as a primary infrastructure to conduct peer-to-peer training and to further build out the annual training plan. Four of the workgroup meet monthly and the other 3 workgroups meet quarterly. We launched a partnership with the center for medicare & medicaid services (cms) and four liveon member agencies to hosted 4 in-person workshops to help ensure that medicare beneficiaries made informed choices about their respective coverage, so as to best meet their healthcare needs over the next year.
$643,773 spent$117,975 earned by the program39% of program spendingWe engaged in extensive advocacy to encourage greater support for older adults and relevant service providers, at the state, city, and federal levels, including heavy online and offline mobilization in response to proposed budget cuts to older adult services. Expanding our engagement of federal lawmakers in response to sweeping cuts, firings, and policy changes that began in january 2025. In january we kicked off this age strong new york,new campaign to highlight how few resources at the city and state level are devoted to aging. We then co-hosted an age strong nys rally with the new york senior statewide action council at the capitol in albany on february 11, 2025. We hosted borough-based age strong new york rallies queens, brooklyn and the bronx. We also hosted our 30th aging advocacy day rally in city hall park, the latter of which drew over 500 participants and considerable press coverage. We convened a new community work group for the new york climate and aging activation network (ny-caan)--a new collaborative initiative between liveon and cornell university's institute for climate and aging (cica), focused on addressing the intersection of climate change and aging in new…
$526,863 spent32% of program spendingWe continued to provide outreach, screening, and application assistance to older new yorkers to get vital benefits such as the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the low-income home energy assistance program (liheap), and the senior citizen rent increase exemption (scrie), among other programs. We provided benefits outreach to approximately 564,857 older adults and assisted 689 older new yorkers with applications, including initial applications, reauthorizations, and change forms.
$485,726 spent$22,720 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,656,362.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+37%).
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: 2017 58% · 2018 59% · 2019 55% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 54% · 2023 54% · 2024 56% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Allison Nickerson
Executive director
Board chair
Joseph Girven
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $473k → $112k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Human Services Council of New York). These are real filings, and they are not money COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 79% · 2019 79% · 2020 38% · 2021 40% · 2022 52% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Government funding COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $248k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$248k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC?
- COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,320,040 to it, the largest being SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ($833,212). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,320,040 in grants to COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC?
- SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $833,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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