Senior Center of West Seattle

Analysis

Senior Center of West Seattle is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Senior Center of West Seattle reported income of $916k and spending of $1.3m, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $2.6m to $916k (-64%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Senior Center of West Seattle sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charleston Community Day Care Center ($916k), Common Roots Montessori School ($916k) and Rio Vista Ministry Inc ($916k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 11% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $116k (9.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $428k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $182k, net assets of $1.8m.