New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY
FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,924 to it, the largest being THE DYSON FOUNDATION ($84,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $163k
What Friends of Seniors of Dutchess County does
Mission
Friends of Seniors provides basic support services to the Dutchess County older adult community: nonemergency medical transportation, grocery shopping, visiting, telephone reassurance, respite for primary caregivers.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation: volunteers drive Dutchess County, NY seniors to their medical appointments which include MDs, labs, physical therapy, same-day-surgery. Between January 2023 and July 2023, 137 seniors were transported to their medical appointments.
$73,249 spentof which $80,785 as grants67% of program spendingVolunteers provided grocery shopping, visiting services, telephone reassurance and respite care for primary caregivers. A total of 39 seniors were assisted with these services.
$36,078 spentof which $39,789 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,327.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $107k to $166k (+54%).
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.
22% of FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Susan Davidson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $17k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY’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
FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 75% · 2021 74% · 2022 52% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY'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. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,056 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY
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.
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 FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY: 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 FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY?
- FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,924 to it, the largest being THE DYSON FOUNDATION ($84,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $180,924 in grants to FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY?
- THE DYSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $84,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SENIORS OF DUTCHESS COUNTY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 6 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