California · Nonprofit
SERVING SENIORS
SERVING SENIORS (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,453,466 to it, the largest being GARY AND MARY WEST FOUNDATION ($3,421,034). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Serving Seniors does
Mission
To provide impactful programs and services to older adults living in poverty. To provide seniors life sustaining services in a welcoming and supportive environment where they can get the help they need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
NUTRITIONServing Seniors Senior Nutrition Program ensures almost 7,000 low-income seniors have access to a nutritious diet, providing over one million congregate and home-delivered meals a year. Meals are served from numerous congregate sites across San Diego County and delivered directly to homebound seniors each day.
$10,366,373 spent70% of program spendingHEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICESServing Seniors team of health educators, social service case managers, and housing navigators provide an array of integrated health and social services that improve low-income seniors health and well-being.Case managers work one-on-one with clients to provide support for the complex, poverty-related issues that threaten their stability and well-being. For many clients without familial support, the case managers fill the role of a caring family member, providing a helping hand and a listening ear.
$3,706,962 spent25% of program spendingHOUSINGServing Seniors provides robust senior housing programs that lift seniors out of homelessness and increase the stock of affordable senior housing in the region. The Transitional Housing Program helps homeless seniors get off the streets by providing transitional housing and supportive services as a direct stepping stone to permanentaffordable housing. Case managers help clients apply for entitlements, save and budget their money, access health and community services, provide life skills training, and make regular in-unit check-ins.Serving Seniors partnered with the City of San Diego to open Seniors Landing Bridge Shelter, a non congregate shelter that provides temporary housing to older adults transitioning out of homelessness and into permanent housing.Serving Seniors affiliate entities Senior Housing Corporation and City Heights Senior Housing Corporation own 529 units of affordable senior housing. Serving Seniors provides meals, social services and socialization opportunities to senior residents across these sites.
$763,349 spent$1,664,434 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,836,684.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $22M (+16%).
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: 2018 50% · 2019 53% · 2020 51% · 2021 65% · 2022 64% · 2023 65% · 2024 67% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of SERVING SENIORS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Paul Downey
President & CEO
Board chair
Mary Gendron
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.4M.
14 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SENIORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
SERVING SENIORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 SERVING SENIORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 56% · 2019 50% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 17% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of SERVING SENIORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
92% of SERVING SENIORS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SENIORS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SERVING SENIORS
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
86% 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
Part of a family of 15 related entities
- Fairmount Shc Housing LLC · disregarded
- Ramona Shc Housing LLC · disregarded
- New Palace Mgp Shc LLC · disregarded
- Mt Etna Senior Housing LLC · disregarded
- San Diego Shc Housing LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS?
- SERVING SENIORS (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,453,466 to it, the largest being GARY AND MARY WEST FOUNDATION ($3,421,034). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERVING SENIORS have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $14,453,466 in grants to SERVING SENIORS, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVING SENIORS?
- GARY AND MARY WEST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,421,034 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVING SENIORS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 77 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing