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

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 45 grants totaling $1.3 million went to senior services-related work in North Carolina. 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 North Carolina, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
SENIOR SERVICES FOUNDATION INC2$465,000
THE LEON LEVINE FOUNDATION2$225,000
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc1$130,000
THE ARTS COUNCIL INC2$69,305
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA2$57,761
Tom Davis Fund1$50,000
Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation2$43,500
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC4$30,343
Fleshman-Pratt Foundation Inc1$30,000
UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN COUNTY2$25,000

Across all funders: 45 grants, $1.3 million total, median grant $7,000.

Largest recipients in North Carolina

RecipientGrantsTotal
SENIOR SERVICES INC18$991,608
Senior Services14$172,774
SENIOR SERVICESMEALS ON WHEELS1$25,000
Community Friends Senior Services2$25,000
Caswell Senior Services1$15,000
PRIME TIME SENIOR SERVICES1$10,000
DAVIE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES1$7,000
COUNTY OF MACON1$5,000
CHEROKEE COUNTY1$5,000
CRAVEN COUNTY NC SENIOR SERVICES SUNSHINE CENTER1$2,500

Open federal opportunities addressing senior services (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in North Carolina 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 $600,00009/18/2026
DFOP0018819Egypt Annual Program StatementBureau of Near Eastern Affairsup to $25.0 million01/01/2099
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

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 459 listings mentioning "senior services" anywhere (retrieved 2026-10-26); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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