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SENIOR CITIZENS INC

SENIOR CITIZENS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,026,116 to it, the largest being THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION ($1,958,587). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.8M
Revenue FY2025
80
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
47/80 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

SENIOR CITIZENS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 112 ($4.9M) Expenses 113 ($5.4M) Net assets 96 ($11M)2019 Revenue 110 ($4.8M) Expenses 118 ($5.7M) Net assets 88 ($11M)2020 Revenue 116 ($5.1M) Expenses 109 ($5.2M) Net assets 87 ($10M)2021 Revenue 89 ($3.9M) Expenses 95 ($4.6M) Net assets 80 ($9.6M)2022 Revenue 88 ($3.8M) Expenses 99 ($4.7M) Net assets 74 ($8.8M)2023 Revenue 141 ($6.1M) Expenses 109 ($5.2M) Net assets 81 ($9.7M)2024 Revenue 120 ($5.2M) Expenses 109 ($5.2M) Net assets 84 ($10M)2025 Revenue 155 ($6.8M) Expenses 103 ($4.9M) Net assets 97 ($12M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (103)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 20% · 2024 35% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of SENIOR CITIZENS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$424k
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$524k
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$870k
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$167k
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$702k
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$912k
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$908k
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$38k
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$1.9M
25
6.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 31 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $1.4M.

10 of 80 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: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Senior Citizens Foundation Inc Dba Fiftyforward Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money SENIOR CITIZENS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SENIOR CITIZENS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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

SENIOR CITIZENS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

50% 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 SENIOR CITIZENS INC.

16%
largest funder
40%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 19% · 2019 32% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 46% · 2023 22%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

48% of SENIOR CITIZENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of SENIOR CITIZENS INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $864k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 80 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SENIOR CITIZENS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.

Federal$4.5M
grants $4.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$4.3M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$263k

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 SENIOR CITIZENS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 17%Fundraising 8%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Senior Citizens Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Joseph B Knowles Trust Fund · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SENIOR CITIZENS INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC?
SENIOR CITIZENS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,026,116 to it, the largest being THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION ($1,958,587). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SENIOR CITIZENS INC have?
IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $12,026,116 in grants to SENIOR CITIZENS INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SENIOR CITIZENS INC?
THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,958,587 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SENIOR CITIZENS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 80funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing