California · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,065,769 to it, the largest being HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN ($1,038,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Council on Aging - Southern California does
Mission
The Council on Aging - Southern California (the organization"), formerly known as council on aging - orange county, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the independence, health, dignity of older adults through compassion, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Behavioral health & wellness department (bhwd):the department offers county-wide prevention and early intervention to older adults who are experiencing mental health barriers later in life. The goal of the department is to improve the biopsychosocial health and overall well-being of community-dwelling older adults in orange county. The bhwd is comprised of three programs: reconnect, friendly visitor, and the program to encourage active, rewarding lives (pearls oc).reconnect: this program is designed to identify and reduce mental health symptoms and risks in isolated and older adults in orange county. The goal of the program is to increase social functioning by reconnecting clients with meaningful community activities that reinforce healthy life patterns and good mental health.friendly visitor program: this program provides frail, isolated, older adults and persons with disabilities who have no family members or support system with healthy companionships, social interaction, and nurturing relations to help them achieve mental, physical, and spiritual health.pearls oc: this program educates older adults about depression and helps them develop the skills they need for…
$2,427,814 spent$20,000 earned by the program34% of program spendingAdvocates for nursing home residents (long-term care ombudsman service):the state-certified long-term care ombudsmen protect the rights of approximately 29,000 older and disabled adults in orange county and 15,000 in riverside county who reside in skilled nursing and residential care facilities. The long-term care ombudsmen investigate allegations of abuse and neglect of long-term care residents and make unannounced visits to 1,600 facilities across both counties. Certified ombudsmen successfully complete a 36-hour certification training and log at least 10 hours of mentored field training. To maintain their certification, ombudsmen receive 2-4 hours per month of continuing education relevant to ombudsman work.
$2,149,894 spent30% of program spendingHealth insurance counseling and advocacy program (hicap): counselors provide educational seminars and individual counseling sessions to existing and newly eligible medicare beneficiaries about medicare and related insurance coverage to help medicare beneficiaries maximize their benefits and minimize costs in orange, riverside, san bernardino, inyo, and mono counties. Counseling is available by telephone or in person at more than 60 sites throughout the five counties. All hicap counselors must successfully complete at least 24 hours of training, 10 hours of internship, and pass a 100 question exam to achieve california department of aging state registration. Afterwards, counselors must meet annual counseling and continuing education requirements (at least 55 hours) to maintain their registration.
$1,773,884 spent25% of program spendingSenior protection program (spp) and financial abuse specialist team (fast): the program provides educational awareness of financial elder abuse issues on a national and community level while providing referrals to appropriate agencies for the investigation of financial abuse cases. Spp is also part of the fast which is a multi-disciplinary volunteer group that assists adult protective services, the ombudsmen, law enforcement and attorneys in resolving complicated matters of abuse.smilemakers program: the program is volunteer service group that coordinates, solicits, and distributes donated personal holiday gifts to individuals in licensed care facilities throughout orange and riverside counties.answers guide: the council publishes and distributes an online 128-page answers guide which includes information on health care, caregiving, housing, finance, legal, insurance, community resources, as well as helpful checklists. In addition to promoting the organization's programs and services, answers guide assists in connecting seniors and those who care for them with information and resources."aging my way - my life, my plan" is aimed at empowering older adults to take charge of their…
$698,418 spent$148,280 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,050,010.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $5.5M (+90%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 78% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 84% · 2024 62% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lisa Wright Jenkins
President & CEO
Board chair
Michelle Jordan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $252k → $329k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 45% · 2019 29% · 2020 40% · 2021 30% · 2022 55% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
74% of COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $611k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,065,769 to it, the largest being HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN ($1,038,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,065,769 in grants to COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN is the largest funder on record, with $1,038,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing