Senior Community Services

Analysis

Senior Community Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Minnetonka, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Senior Community Services reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $2.6m (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Senior Community Services sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include TLC Family Resource Center ($2.6m), Prevention Awareness Support Services ($2.6m) and Elijahs Promise ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 11% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $263k (9.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $147k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 141 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.