Center for Successful Aging
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800422344
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8059638080
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,713
- Expenses
- $206,021
- Assets
- $26,393
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GAYLE GOLDEN (President)
People named in this filing
- DIANE ALEXANDER (Director)
- CINDY FEINBERG (Director)
- LASHON KELLY (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote the social, physical, emotional and spiritual life of seniors and families.
What it reported doing in 2024
The center facilitates a senior peer counseling program that offers support and assistance to over 200 seniors and their caregivers through individual and group sessions, addressing their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. The staff coordinates with over 80 community agencies where seniors can be matched with the service they need.the center has a free careline telephone reassurance program where volunteers provide daily calls to seniors wanting a friendly call weekly. Another service that the center offers is real help program that matches seniors with qualified and low-cost providers who can be employed to run errands, help around the house, do grocery shopping, gardening, light cleaning or making meals.the center has a free newspaper called successful aging where seniors can read about important issues; learn about activities, as well as useful health and safety tips. It is published quarterly, and 6,000 copies are distributed to over 140 sites in the greater santa barbara area.the center offers services for the elderly at a senior housing complex, including such activities as support groups, chair yoga, bingo, field trips and general support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.