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WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER

WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER (Delaware) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,609,309 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ($608,703). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$875k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$7.1M
13/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Wilmington Senior Center does

Mission

Wilmington Senior Center provides life-sustaining and life-enriching services, opportunities, and partnerships that have a positive impact on older adults' physical, mental, and social well-being and that contribute to future generations.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Supportive services are provided daily that include physical and mental fitness programs, wellness education, health screenings. Meals served onsite and delivered to the homebound, transportation to and from the center, social services, outreach, information and referrals. The $tand by me 50+ program provides financial coaching and workshops for people over age 50, benefits screening and application assistance, and financial literacythe caregiver resource center includes resources for caregivers caring for elderly and/or sick relatives in their homes. Additionally, the grandparent resource center provides programs and services for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren; including information referrals, case management, crisis intervention.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($848k) Expenses 100 ($738k) Net assets 100 ($7.0M)2018 Revenue 95 ($807k) Expenses 100 ($736k) Net assets 105 ($7.4M)2019 Revenue 110 ($937k) Expenses 106 ($780k) Net assets 107 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 103 ($875k) Expenses 110 ($809k) Net assets 102 ($7.1M)
2017201820192020
Revenue (103)Expenses (110)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $7.1M to $7.5M (+6%).

$7.1M
$7.5M
$7.7M
$7.3M
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 12% · 2019 47% · 2020 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$110k
’17
$72k
’18
$157k
’19
$65k
’20
2.0
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed16172013
Joined·+4+5+2
No longer listed·329
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $109k → $118k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER’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

WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% 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 WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER.

38%
largest funder
60%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 54% · 2019 64% · 2020 66% · 2021 45% · 2022 28% · 2023 42% — 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

71% of WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER's grant income comes from Delaware funders.

PA
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin7% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,224 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020

Government funding WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.

State$1.6M
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Top programs
  • GRANTS IN AID$1.3M
  • OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$225k
  • OTHER SERVICES TRAINING$50k
  • BUILDINGS - OFFICE SPACE$2k
  • CLIENT ASSISTANCE$414

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Lafayette Court LP · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER?
WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER (Delaware) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,609,309 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ($608,703). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,609,309 in grants to WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER?
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE is the largest funder on record, with $608,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 16 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