California · Nonprofit
SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES
SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,491,570 to it, the largest being SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES ($1,025,537). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $263k
What Senior Citizens Legal Services does
Mission
Legal service for seniors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is a california not-for-profit corporation whose purpose is providing legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings to persons 55 years or older who reside in santa cruz and san benito counties. The organization also provides conservatorship services to incapacitated persons who are hospitalized and have no responsible party to authorize their discharge and to assure payment for a lower level of care.
$1,005,079 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,005,079.
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 2022 to 2023, from $353k to $603k (+71%).
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 60% · 2018 72% · 2019 94% · 2020 97% · 2021 83% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% · 2024 92% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $321k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES’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
SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 68% · 2023 71% — 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 SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k 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
SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES
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
77% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES?
- SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,491,570 to it, the largest being SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES ($1,025,537). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,491,570 in grants to SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES?
- SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES 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.
Play a game about who funds Senior Citizens Legal Services →
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 8 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