Kansas · Nonprofit
SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA
SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA (Kansas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,061,083 to it, the largest being DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,676,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Senior Services Inc of Wichita does
Mission
Senior services, inc. Of wichita is dedicated to delivering services that allow older adults the opportunity to lead quality lives while continuing to make positive contributions to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals on wheels delivered over 180,241 hot and nutritious meals to 1,155 homebound seniors five days a week and seven days a week for individuals with the most need. Volunteers who deliver the meals provide a daily face to face contact for many who are otherwise isolated.
$1,753,707 spent$112,269 earned by the program66% of program spendingFour senior centers are operated through senior services, providing people aged 55+ with opportunities to learn, grow and stay physically, mentally and socially active. The centers offer a vast array of events and programs such as pickleball, exercise classes, educational and craft opportunities. The goal of senior centers is to help those 55+ remain independent and connected to others. The senior centers served 2,385 seniors with 40,507 contacts during the year.
$466,500 spent$46,963 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe senior employment program assists seniors, aged 55+, to find meaningful employment in business and/or in home support placements. The program was able to make these connections via email, phone, mail, and face to face contacts with approximately 826 seniors during the year.
$196,702 spent$99 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe organization also facilitates the roving pantry program which takes grocery orders and shops and delivers to homebound seniors who have no one to shop for them. Capital funds includes primarily depreciation and other general costs associated with the organization's facilities that directly benefit multiple programs.
$244,459 spent$2,981 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,661,368.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.3M to $7.9M (+8%).
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 27% · 2018 35% · 2019 47% · 2020 77% · 2021 75% · 2022 74% · 2023 66% · 2024 69% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA’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. 2 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
Laurel Alkire
Executive director
Board chair
Donna Johnson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $257k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SERVICES INC OF WICHITA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 SERVICES INC OF WICHITA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 SERVICES INC OF WICHITA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 62% · 2019 75% · 2020 70% · 2021 64% · 2022 68% · 2023 57% — 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
45% of SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
97% of SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SERVICES INC OF WICHITA's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA?
- SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA (Kansas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,061,083 to it, the largest being DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,676,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,061,083 in grants to SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA?
- DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,676,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 31 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