Tennessee · Nonprofit
SENIOR CITIZENS INC
SENIOR CITIZENS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,198,456 to it, the largest being THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION ($1,958,587). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Senior Citizens Inc does
Mission
Fiftyforward supports, champions and enhances life for those 50 and older.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lifelong learning centers: operation of seven lifelong learning centers in davidson, williamson, and rutherford counties, providing health, wellness, educational, and recreational programming to over 4,000 adults over 50.
$2,622,634 spent$718,550 earned by the program71% of program spendingSupportive care: a continuum of five programs designed to promote enhanced quality of life and systems of support through care management, conservatorship, meals on wheels, and adult day services, serving over 800 individuals age 50+ and their caregivers annually.
$1,083,341 spent$319,422 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,705,975.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $17M (+13%).
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 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).
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
Sallie Hussey
CEO
Board chair
Cynthia Whitfield-Story
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 81 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: $1.9M 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 81 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
51% 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.
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; 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
98% of SENIOR CITIZENS INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $874k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SENIOR CITIZENS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Senior Citizens Foundation Inc · exempt
- Joseph B Knowles Trust Fund · corp_trust
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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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Questions and answers
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC?
- SENIOR CITIZENS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,198,456 to it, the largest being THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION ($1,958,587). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SENIOR CITIZENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $12,198,456 in grants to SENIOR CITIZENS INC, 49 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 81 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