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Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council
Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,854 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($76,668). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $583k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council does
Mission
The Mission of Lifelong is to enhance the lives of older adults in Tompkins County through health and wellness, learning, exercise, recreation, travel, life planning and volunteer programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Learning - Our programs which include lifelong learning classes, exercise and art classes taught by contracted teachers,and other programming including social groups and special events.
$285,887 spent79% of program spendingProvides free, unbiased Medicare counseling and assistance to older adults and caregivers through trained and state-certified volunteers. Services include plan comparisons, enrollment assistance, and education regarding Medicare options.
$38,273 spent11% of program spendingProvides free income tax preparation for seniors and eligible individuals through IRS-sponsored volunteers at multiple community locations.
$26,040 spent7% of program spendingSenior Circle is a quarterly newspaper, available in print and digital format full of information for the countys seniors. It is written by Lifelong and County Office for the Aging staff. Printed copies are distributed throughout the county at libraries and community centers. It is available digitally on Lifelongs and TCOFAs websites, as well as being personally emailed who have asked that it be sent to them in this way.
$12,747 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,947.
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 $1.1M to $1.5M (+42%).
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 33% · 2018 30% · 2019 37% · 2020 46% · 2021 36% · 2022 43% · 2023 45% · 2024 25% · 2025 50%. 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
Liza Burger
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $19k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council’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
Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 67% · 2021 40% · 2022 43% · 2023 64% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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.
Organizations like Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council: 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 Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council?
- Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,854 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($76,668). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $195,854 in grants to Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council?
- UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,668 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 6 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