California · Nonprofit
Willits Senior Inc
Willits Senior Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,762 to it, the largest being TR ERIKSEN TRUST FUND CO SHELLY A SMITH TRUSTEE ($265,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $952k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Willits Senior Inc does
Mission
Provide hot balanced meals, outreach, transportation and other services as needed for seniors in Willits, CA.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
NUTRITION PROGRAM C-1 (Meals on Wheels (MOW) & C-2 (On Site Meals)We served 9,762 Meals on Wheels lunches and 10,862 On Site Lunches (total lunches served 20,624) We raised our price per meal to $8 for On Site Meals and $6 for Meals on Wheels due to increasing food prices. Our cost per meal is about $10 per meal but as a non profit our efforts are focused on helping financially and physically challenged seniors and those with disabilities. We also deliver Thanksgiving Dinner every year to our MOW Clients This year a lady broke down and cried when I handed her a thanksgiving dinner. She said, "thank you for taking time out of your day to bring me a dinner, I live alone have and no family to be with and would have gone without, god bless you." Personal experiences like this happen all the time. I tell everyone this service is the collaborative efforts of our donors, volunteers, staff and Board of Directors. This is perfect example of what can be accomplished when people share in a common goal and have established a trusting relationship over time. Words cannot accurately express how much we appreciate all the T. R Eriksen Foundation has done for the senior center over the years. We…
$705,140 spent$202,554 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $705,140.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+14%).
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 19% · 2018 35% · 2019 19% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 34% · 2024 20% · 2025 19%. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $14k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $277k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Endowment for Willits Seniors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Willits Senior Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Willits Senior Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
Willits Senior Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Willits Senior Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 55% · 2022 88% · 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
100% of Willits Senior Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Willits Senior 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 Willits Senior 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 Willits Senior Inc?
- Willits Senior Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,762 to it, the largest being TR ERIKSEN TRUST FUND CO SHELLY A SMITH TRUSTEE ($265,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Willits Senior Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $544,762 in grants to Willits Senior Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Willits Senior Inc?
- TR ERIKSEN TRUST FUND CO SHELLY A SMITH TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Willits Senior Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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