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DORCHESTER SENIORS INC

EIN 57-0703785 SUMMERVILLE, SC

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Revenue 2023
$2,505,155
Expenses 2023
$1,941,390

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P810
Classification
1000
Street
312 N LAUREL ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

DORCHESTER SENIORS OPERATES TWO CENTERS IN THE COMMUNITY PROVIDING PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES, AND EVENTS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO OFFERS GROUP DINING, HOME-DELIVERED MEALS, AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE ELDERLY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF ELDERLY CITIZENS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC.

  • SENIOR CENTERS -- DORCHESTER SENIORS, INC. OPERATES TWO SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY. THE FAITH SELLERS SENIOR CENTER IS LOCATED IN SUMMERVILLE AND THE DAVID SOJOURNER SENIOR CENTER IS LOCATED IN ST. GEORGE. MEMBERS MUST BE 50 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. THE CENTER MEMBERSHIPS ARE FREE TO ANY DORCHESTER COUNTY RESIDENTS, OUT OF COUNTY RESIDENTS PAY A SMALL YEARLY FEE. ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS AT THE SENIOR CENTERS INCLUDE PHYSICAL FITNESS, EDUCATION, ARTS/CRAFTS, TRIPS AND TOURS AND NUMEROUS SOCIAL EVENTS.

    Expenses $388,278 · Revenue $189,490

  • HOME DELIVERED MEALS -- HOME DELIVERED MEALS ARE OFFERED MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, EXCLUDING HOLIDAYS. DORCHESTER SENIORS, INC. DOES RECEIVE FUNDING TO OFFER HOME DELIVERED MEALS AT NO COST TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF FRAIL, HOMEBOUND CLIENTS WHO ARE 60 YEARS OR OLDER. CLIENTS MAY ALSO RECEIVE HOME DELIVERED MEALS ON A PRIVATE PAY BASIS.

    Expenses $601,831

  • TRANSPORTATION -- DORCHESTER SENIORS, INC. ALSO OPERATES SEVERAL 15 PASSENGER VANS/BUSES WHICH PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO THE SENIOR CENTERS FOR THE CONGREGATE MEAL PROGRAMS AND FOR CENTER ACTIVITIES.

    Expenses $310,622

  • CONGREGATE MEALS

    Expenses $271,795

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tim Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Pamela Kelly

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Malika Watson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kathene Winston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jan Parsons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sinclair Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Russell Cornette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Don Baus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dianne Thomas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Carol Davis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Karie Calhoun

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Shirley Chapman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Margaret Goodwine

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ruth Sojourner Tripp

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Emily Watts

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Diane Jones

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Haren Main

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laquinta West

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(BEGIN AUGUST 2023)

    Total calculated
    $95,998
    From this org
    $70,537
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,461
    Hours/week
    40
  • Leigh Thompson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(THROUGH AUGUST 2023)

    Total calculated
    $61,318
    From this org
    $52,216
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,102
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,505,155
    Expenses
    $1,941,390
    Contributions
    $2,163,307
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,277,965
    Expenses
    $2,035,570
    Contributions
    $2,132,821
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,669,476
    Expenses
    $2,237,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,679,456
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,139,419
    Expenses
    $2,053,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,231,329
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,108,958
    Expenses
    $2,018,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,139,162
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,103,760
    Expenses
    $2,073,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,048,736
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,025,702
    Expenses
    $2,024,427
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,026,622
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,035,709
    Expenses
    $2,025,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,002,259
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,016,273
    Expenses
    $1,852,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,984,111
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,938,389
    Expenses
    $1,799,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,835,021
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,746,755
    Expenses
    $1,695,617
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,683,232
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,572,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,623,551

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.