Virginia · Nonprofit
SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA
SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,232 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($165,143). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $964k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Senior Services of Alexandria does
Mission
To foster independence and self-sufficiency, enabling seniors within the city of alexandria to age with dignity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation (dot) - provides transportation for disabled residents of alexandria who find it difficult to use public transportation. Trips within the city of alexandria are at no charge. Dot's one-way fare for trips up to five miles outside city limits is $4.00. Trips over five miles to arlington, fairfax county, and d.c. Are $6.00. Ssa reservationists handle calls 7 days a week, except city holidays, booking more than 55,000 trips for more than 1300 disabled residents each year.
$279,769 spent$242,820 earned by the program27% of program spendingMeals on wheels - a life-sustaining program that allows seniors who are unable to leave their homes to shop, or who have difficulty preparing a meal, to have two healthy meals a day delivered to their homes. Meals are delivered 365 days a year, including holidays. Over 100 clients are served by a dedicated team of more than 400 volunteers who deliver over 50,000 meals each year.
$333,170 spent$177,525 earned by the program32% of program spendingGroceries to go - in partnership with giant foods, harris teeter, and safeway, 125 screened volunteers deliver groceries year-round to more than 85seniors every other week. Groceries are ordered over the phone or by e-mail based on the grocery recipient's personal shopping list. There are no delivery fees; clients pay only for grocery items requested. Ssa began delivering free groceries to snap eligible clients in partnership with the alive food warehouse in march 2023 to address the negative impact of inflation and reduction in benefits.
$45,621 spent$1,615 earned by the program4% of program spendingFriendly visitorcaring connectioninformation and education
$368,684 spent$1,192 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,027,244.
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 $1.4M to $1.9M (+38%).
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 38% · 2018 26% · 2019 41% · 2020 43% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Mary Lee Anderson
Executive director
Board chair
Christine Friedberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $85k → $88k.
7 of 26 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 SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA’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 SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
64% 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 OF ALEXANDRIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 43% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
37% of SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
56% of SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k 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.
Organizations like SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA: 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 SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA?
- SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,232 to it, the largest being MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ($165,143). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $964,232 in grants to SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA?
- MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $165,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 26 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