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Who funds senior services in Illinois? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 72 grants totaling $19.4 million went to senior services-related work in Illinois. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of senior services in Illinois, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
AGESMART COMMUNITY RESOURCES12$7.8 million
MEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN2$5.2 million
AGEGUIDE NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS2$3.9 million
SENIOR SERVICES FOUNDATION INC1$597,066
THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION8$380,763
WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION3$300,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC2$236,481
WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA AGENCY ON AGING1$236,440
EAST CENTRAL IL AREA AGENCY1$165,107
UNITED WAY OF DANVILLE AREA INC2$97,000

Across all funders: 72 grants, $19.4 million total, median grant $25,000.

Largest recipients in Illinois

RecipientGrantsTotal
SENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC8$5.8 million
COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION3$5.2 million
SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC4$4.2 million
MILLSTADT TOWNSHIP SENIOR SERVICES2$614,897
CLINTON COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC3$614,689
WASHINGTON COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES2$455,075
SENIOR SERVICES OF WILL COUNTY1$373,322
NE RANDOLPH COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES2$321,786
CHICAGO METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES4$311,374
MASCOUTAH SENIOR SERVICES PROGRAM2$255,330

Open federal opportunities addressing senior services (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Illinois can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "senior services"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: older adults, aging, elderly.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
HHS-2026-ACL-AOA-DASG-0012Disaster Assistance for State Units on Aging (SUAs) and Tribal OrganizationsAdministration for Community Living$30,000 to $600,00009/01/2026
PAS-25-205Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors (SHINE) (R01 Clinical Trial National Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/06/2028
PAR-25-081National Cancer Institute's Investigator-Initiated Early Phase Clinical Trials fNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to $499,99901/07/2027
PAR-25-079Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo ImagingNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to $500,00001/07/2027
PAR-25-145Clinical Characterization of Cancer Therapy-induced Adverse Sequelae and MechaniNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-24-311Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Cancer (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Healthunspecified to $500,00001/07/2028
PAR-25-207Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize LongeNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-175Integration of Imaging and Fluid-Based Tumor Monitoring in Cancer Therapy (R01 CNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to $500,00001/07/2028

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 718 listings mentioning "senior services" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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