California · Nonprofit
SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES
SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,635 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $256k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $-6670
What Senior Volunteer Services does
Mission
Senior Volunteer Services promotes volunteers and the health and well-being of both seniors and their communities by recruiting volunteers for nonprofit organizations, working with other agencies that support and advocate seniors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rsvp: retired and senior volunteer program rsvp recruits and places senior volunteers at community nonprofit and government agencies located in san luis obispo and northern santa barbara counties. These volunteers, along with cccv volunteers, provided 44,700 hours of service during the period. Rsvp is the only program that recruits senior volunteers to serve other nonprofit and governmental agencies. Project lifesaver provides, for a nominal maintenance fee, wristband transmitters to elderly and cognitively impaired individuals who are at risk of wandering and becoming lost. The program also serves a number autistic and developmentally challenged children to live more safely in their environments. The transmitters assist rescue personnel to locate lost individuals.
$123,431 spent$13,483 earned by the program65% of program spendingPrsc: paso robles senior center: a contract with the city of paso robles provides on-site management of the senior center. Staffing by Senior Volunteer Services with a coordinator assures a cost-effective and smooth operation of the center. Coordinator duties include developing and providing appropriate senior programs that encourage participation of center members to enhance their health and well-being. Programs include computer classes, a library, games, celebratory meals and field trips.
$66,460 spent$80,303 earned by the program35% of program spendingCccv: retired and senior volunteer program rsvp for seniors over age 55, and central coast community volunteers cccv for seniors over age 50, recruit and place these senior volunteers at community nonprofit and government agencies located in san luis obispo and northern santa barbara counties. These volunteers, provided 44,700 hours of service during the period. Rsvp has been active for more than 43 years and cccv was launched in october of 2015. Both these programs, under the direction of Senior Volunteer Services, are the only ones that specifically recruit senior volunteers to serve other nonprofit and governmental agencies.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,891.
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 2018 to 2019, from $151k to $117k (−23%).
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 49% · 2018 46% · 2019 45% · 2020 54% · 2021 67% · 2022 53% · 2023 50% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $30.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 VOLUNTEER 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 VOLUNTEER SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 VOLUNTEER SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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 VOLUNTEER SERVICES receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $486k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$486k
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 VOLUNTEER 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
70% 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 VOLUNTEER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES?
- SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,635 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($57,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,635 in grants to SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SENIOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SENIOR VOLUNTEER 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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