North Carolina · Nonprofit
DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE
DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,151 to it, the largest being The Forest At Duke Inc ($437,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $748k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Durham Center for Senior Life does
Mission
Enrich the lives of durham older adults 55+ by promoting healthy, active, and independent lifestyles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Senior centers. Approximately 250 seniors visit dcsl's senior centers each day to participate in education, fitness and social programs. Dcsl centers host approximately 70 of these activities each week, and provide a variety of health services, classes, and groups, transportation assistance, and nutritious meals. Our senior centers are the front door to dcls's full array of programs and to the durham county's network of aging services. Congregate nutrition: dcsl's downtown durham main center and satellite center in the rural town of bahama offer free, healthy lunchtime meals and social activities for area seniors five days a week. Through these, older adults are able to strengthen social connections, enjoy recreational projects, and benefit from balanced nutritious meals. Health promotion: dcsl offers daily fitness and activity groups, classes and evidence-based health management programs, helping seniors take charge of their health and remain active. Through a variety of community partnerships, seniors receive additional health screening, education, and resources on-site at dcsl centers.
$685,164 spent$150,933 earned by the program40% of program spendingInformation, referral and social services. Dcsl provides a wide array of social services to meet the diverse needs of durham county's older residents. Services include information and referral, options counseling and coordinated service linkage, home weatherization, and utility assistance, telephone reassurance, transportation assistance, home nutrition and hygiene support, and other commonly requested services. Services provided on-site by our community partners include legal assistance, health and nutrition services, education, veteran's resources, medication management, healthcare navigation, medicare enrollment, physical therapy and government social services among others. Dcsl also addresses food insecurity through our shop & grab program designed to allow older adult monthly access to food of their choice at no cost to them. This program supports more than 100 older adults monthly.
$377,970 spent$19,200 earned by the program22% of program spendingAdult day health: dcsl provides respite services on-site for up to 60 older or disabled adults who are unable to live independently each day, including skilled nursing health services, nutritious meals, structured activities, promoting physical and mental health among durham's most vulnerable seniors.
$629,124 spent$179,010 earned by the program37% of program spendingFamily caregiver support: dcsl's family caregiver support program helps adult children and other family members care for their aging loved ones in the comfort of their homes. The program provides information and resources, counseling, support groups, structured educational programs, and in-home respite care. Last year, our family caregiver volunteers provided approximately 2,500 hours of respite assistance for seniors and their family caregivers throughout durham county.
$1,955 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,692,258.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $486k to $4.4M (+798%).
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: 2019 75% · 2020 82% · 2021 90% · 2022 73% · 2023 73% · 2024 71% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Julie Carroll
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $91k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 51% · 2019 74% · 2020 83% · 2021 81% · 2022 70% · 2023 55% — 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
60% of DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
86% of DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$53k
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 DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE?
- DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,151 to it, the largest being The Forest At Duke Inc ($437,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $748,151 in grants to DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE?
- The Forest At Duke Inc is the largest funder on record, with $437,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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