California · Nonprofit
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY (California) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,759,779 to it, the largest being National Asian Pacific Center on Aging ($3,042,935). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Self-Help for the Elderly does
Mission
Self-Help for the Elderly strives to promote the independence, well-being, and dignity for older adults through culturally aligned services and programs in the san francisco bay area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals and activities: self-help operates multi-service senior centers in san francisco, san mateo, and santa clara counties. The centers provide a hot lunch and offer recreational and educational activities, translation, information, and referral services. The home delivery meals program provides meals to homebound seniors once a day.
$9,991,299 spent$54,803 earned by the program34% of program spendingSocial services/team/changes: these services include case management, counseling, assisting clients in completing forms, and translating forms and documents for seniors. Telecommunications education and assistance in multiple languages (team) and community help and awareness of natural gas and electric services (changes) programs focus on providing outreach, education, and dispute resolution services to consumers with limited english proficiency related to telecommunication and electricity and natural gas bills and issues.
$6,720,715 spent$139,590 earned by the program23% of program spendingEmployment and training: the employment training and economic development department (eted) is funded primarily by the san francisco mayor's office of economic and workforce development. Eted provides training, counseling and employment, with a mission to provide quality workforce services to job seekers and employers, and to develop business services that employ skilled workers and support economic self-sufficiency. A neighborhood-based "one-stop" job center under this program provides information and referrals, job preparation, and placement services.
$6,186,133 spent$47,640 earned by the program21% of program spendingHousing: this program consists of the low-income housing operations of pine view, autumn glow and lincoln court.in-home supportive services: this program provides short-term personal care assistance and housekeeping services to frail seniors.home health care: self-help is a medicare-certified, state-licensed home health care agency. Services include skilled nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, medical social services, and certified home health aide services. Services are provided pursuant to a physician's orders and take place in the patient's home.board and care: self-help provides personal care, round-the-clock supervision, activities, room, board, and housekeeping services in autumn glow alzheimer's care home.adult day services: the day services center provides a day-long program of nursing, medical social services, physical, occupational, and speech therapies and activities to frail seniors and those afflicted with alzheimer's disease or other dementia.hospice: self-help is a medicare-certified and state-licensed hospice that provides services to terminally ill patients. Services include skilled nursing, certified home health aide services, medical social…
$6,764,059 spent$8,254,888 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,662,206.
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 $27M to $35M (+31%).
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 54% · 2018 55% · 2019 60% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 66% · 2023 72% · 2024 75% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Anni Chung
President & CEO
Board chair
Nicholas Jay
Chair (thru 6/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $502k → $2.0M.
19 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 66% · 2019 27% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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
52% of SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
62% of SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Pine View Housing Corporation · exempt
- Autumn Glow Alzheimer's Care Home Inc · exempt
- Lincoln Court Associates · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY?
- SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY (California) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,759,779 to it, the largest being National Asian Pacific Center on Aging ($3,042,935). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $12,759,779 in grants to SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY?
- National Asian Pacific Center on Aging is the largest funder on record, with $3,042,935 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY 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 95 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