Ohio · Nonprofit
SERVING OUR SENIORS INC
SERVING OUR SENIORS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,828 to it, the largest being THE ALBERT G & OLIVE H SCHLINK FOUNDATION ($149,200). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Serving Our Seniors Inc does
Mission
To provide the services that support erie county citizens age 60+ to continue healthy living and to maintain their functional independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation program - weekday transportation. The weekday transportation program was designed to provide rides for senior citizens within erie county, allowing them to maintain their independence. There is a 1.50 fee each way for both city and rural areas. Clients that cannot afford the fee are issued a pass in which they pay 0.50 per ride regardless of destination and serving our seniors makes up the difference.
$201,209 spentof which $201,209 as grants$75 earned by the program13% of program spendingHome delivered meal program. Designed to address nutritional risk in the rural population of senior citizens. Monday - friday a hot, home delivered meal is taken to the home of an erie county resident, age 60+, living in the rural aspects of erie county.
$290,568 spentof which $275,929 as grants19% of program spendingProblem solving & advocacy programs. Serving our seniors is available by telephone and for home visits to help erie county older adults with their questions, problems or concerns. This is the most widely used program and is free to any erie county older adult.
$672,534 spent43% of program spendingThe remaining program services include: prescription medication healthcare advocacy dental services emergency home repair senior advocate program subsidizing
$389,398 spentof which $194,925 as grants$2,849 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,553,709.
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 $2.0M to $3.0M (+45%).
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 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 76% · 2021 79% · 2022 85% · 2023 85% · 2024 84% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of SERVING OUR SENIORS INC’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. 1 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 7 funders, grant income rose $21k → $49k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SERVING OUR SENIORS INC’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
SERVING OUR SENIORS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 71% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — 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
67% of SERVING OUR SENIORS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
93% of SERVING OUR SENIORS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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
SERVING OUR SENIORS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SERVING OUR SENIORS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 SERVING OUR SENIORS 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 SERVING OUR SENIORS INC?
- SERVING OUR SENIORS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,828 to it, the largest being THE ALBERT G & OLIVE H SCHLINK FOUNDATION ($149,200). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERVING OUR SENIORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $328,828 in grants to SERVING OUR SENIORS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVING OUR SENIORS INC?
- THE ALBERT G & OLIVE H SCHLINK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $149,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVING OUR SENIORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 10 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