Washington · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER
SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,642 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($70,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Southeast Seattle Senior Center does
Mission
We provide services, activities, and support to promote self-sufficient and fulfilling lives for aging adults in our multi-cultural community. Services and activities include food and nutrition programs, health promotion, wellness and fitness, education, recreation, and socialization, social services (including social worker services).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Southeast Seattle Senior Center continued to support members and participants who participate in a variety of programs: food and mutrition, health wellness and fitness, education, recreation and socialization. As well as, social services. Meal delivery service for homebound seniors continued, ensuring they received the support they needed. The center provided services to 1733 participants greater than 50 years old.
$892,827 spentof which $136,682 as grants$29,253 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $892,827.
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 $571k to $887k (+56%).
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 56% · 2019 47% · 2020 60% · 2021 53% · 2022 56% · 2023 55% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER’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 7 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
Katie Parker
Executive director
Board chair
Dawn Crownover
Board chair/finance
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $67k → $72.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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
SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
99% 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 SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 80% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 24% 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
82% of SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER: 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 SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER?
- SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,642 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($70,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $252,642 in grants to SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 17 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