Senior Services North Fulton Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581948370
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Alpharetta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7709931906
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,438,752
- Expenses
- $2,534,403
- Assets
- $2,017,922
- Liabilities
- $338,407
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- BONNIE SAMMONS (SECRETARY)
- JOAN CARLSON (VICE CHAIR)
- LAUREN HATTAUER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide services and support for seniors to enhance their quality of life and independence in our community. Our vision is an inclusive community where all older adults are revered, cared for, and supported to live meaningful and productive lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
The meals on wheels (mow) program delivers nutritious mid-day meals to older adults at home who are unable to afford or prepare meals for themselves. Our volunteers are often the only visitors a homebound older adult has on a given day, and they are trained to alert senior services if medical emergencies arise at the time of the delivery visit. Nonperishable nutritious meals are also provided for seniors to have on hand during periods of inclement weather and emergencies. During the year 2024, our team of dedicated volunteers delivered more than 28,000 meals on wheels to seniors. According to feeding america's map the meal gap study, Georgia ranks 10th in the nation for senior hunger. Our mow program is helping to ease the problem in north fulton and atlanta.over 600 volunteers provided over 19,000 hours of service during the year ended december 31, 2024. They support our mission and service to older adults in our community by delivering meals, helping at the senior centers, delivering pet food, visiting seniors in need, and serving on our board of directors. Without our dedicated volunteers we could not carry out our mission. The emergency assistance program provides support for clients when no other funding source is available. Clients could require assistance with food, rent, utilities, medications, or other urgent needs.our meals on wheels for pets (mowp) program continues to grow in the community. By providing seniors with pet food, we can help them avoid surrender or separation from their companion pets.our pantry to you program provides non-perishable food items from our local food pantry to our most in-need and vulnerable senior clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.