Michigan · Nonprofit
SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC
SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,151 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($1,133,392). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Senior Neighbors Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to enhance the lives of seniors with the vision that every senior will be empowered to achieve a brighter future. We provide a wide range of essential services at our five senior neighborhood centers. We promote the well-being of older adults with services that promote self-sufficiency, especially to those with physical, social or economic needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Essential services: in the current year senior neighbors served over 5,594 seniors in a variety of ways, all of which work to enhance the lives of seniors in our community. Senior neighbors provides a wide range of essential services to older adults to help them stay independent, especially to those with physical, social, or economic needs. These services work to help seniors overcome the many barriers to healthy aging that may be present in their life, from preventing isolation with our five senior centers to our case management team of social workers connecting them with much needed community resources. Above all, senior neighbors works to meet seniors where they are in life and be there to help. Essential services programs include case management, healthy aging exercise classes, home repairs, housing assistance, medicare and medicaid counseling, elder refugee support, and senior centers.
$2,128,513 spent$63,648 earned by the program50% of program spendingVolunteer programs: many older adults are looking for a way to stay engaged with their community through service, and senior neighbors can provide a connection to opportunities through several different programs. The goal of the volunteer program is to provide seniors with a connection to the community, their peers, and a sense of purpose. Possible volunteer positions include local police departments, food pantries, senior companionship connections, or literacy tutoring for young students.
$971,481 spent23% of program spendingTransportation services: a variety of transportation options are available throughout kent county so older adults can get to their desired destinations on a daily basis. Rides are often given for medical appointments, grocery shopping, or a visit to a senior neighbors center. These rides are provided with agency owned vehicles, as well as local public transportation systems.
$675,770 spent$44,285 earned by the program16% of program spendingFood services: congregate meals are provided to seniors 60 years of age or more and is a cornerstone of each of the five senior neighbors centers across kent county. Oftentimes the nutritionally balanced meal is what attracts seniors to the center, but they find the array of services provided daily are just as important. The sense of community and shared meals at each of these centers is also a key ingredient to the success of the meals program. The pre-prepared meals are cooked locally and provided by meals on wheels of western michigan. Each day at lunchtime the meals are available to seniors through a requested donation.
$503,644 spent$44,369 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,279,408.
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.
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 $2.2M to $3.5M (+57%).
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: 2020 77% · 2021 80% · 2022 77% · 2023 78% · 2024 77% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Catherine Jacobs
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $678k → $286k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NEIGHBORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 NEIGHBORS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 NEIGHBORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 42% · 2019 34% · 2020 43% · 2021 42% · 2022 48% · 2023 52% — 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
42% of SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
52% of SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $735k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.0M
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 NEIGHBORS 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SENIOR NEIGHBORS 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 NEIGHBORS INC?
- SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,151 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($1,133,392). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,136,151 in grants to SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC?
- MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $1,133,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 34 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