Senior Angels Of The Central Coast

What Senior Angels Of The Central Coast does

Senior Angels of the Central Coast is a 501c(3) non-profit organization operating in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, California, with the primary mission of delivering holiday gifts to isolated seniors in long-term care facilities. The organization's flagship program, the Be Santa to a Senior Holiday Wish Program, coordinates directly with activities directors at four partner care facilities — Vineyard Hills Care Center (Templeton), Mission View Care Center (San Luis Obispo), The Garden House (Morro Bay), and Arroyo Grande Care Center — to collect individual wish lists, publish them via an Amazon Wish List registry, and route community donors to specific seniors for gift purchase and delivery by a December 10 deadline. The organization serves approximately 250 seniors annually and has publicly stated a goal of granting 1,000 wishes in the current year.

Operationally, the organization runs without proprietary technology, relying instead on a third-party toolchain: SignUpGenius for volunteer scheduling and gift adoption, Amazon Wish List for donor-facing gift selection, PayPal for monetary donations, and a website (seniorangelsofthecentralcoast.org) backed by standard reCAPTCHA and Google Analytics integrations. Revenue is exclusively monetary donations from community members, with no products or services sold; donors can either purchase specific gifts via the Amazon registry or contribute cash that the organization uses to buy basic gifts on behalf of seniors. Marketing is concentrated on organic social (Facebook and Instagram) plus the donation-enabled website. The organization recently introduced a Senior Adoption Program, extending community engagement beyond the holiday window into ongoing companionship visits with seniors at partner facilities.

Name

Senior Angels Of The Central Coast

Legal name

Senior Angels of the Central Coast

Website

https://seniorangelsofthecentralcoast.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Senior Angels of the Central Coast is a 501c(3) non-profit that coordinates holiday gift donations for approximately 250 isolated seniors across four long-term care facilities in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, California, via the Be Santa to a Senior program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Senior Care Nonprofit Services

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Group Gifting & Registry Fulfillment (HSACANAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Senior Social Clubs & Community-Based Day Programs (Non-Clinical) (HSABANAK)

Keywords

• Senior care services
• Nonprofit charity programs
• Holiday gift donations
• Elder care support
• Community volunteer programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Grover Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Monetary Donations: The organization collects monetary donations from the community to purchase basic holiday gifts for seniors. Donors can contribute directly through the website or fundraise via PayPal. These donations fund gift purchases for the approximately 250 seniors served across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that runs holiday gift-giving programs for senior citizens living in long-term care facilities across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties in California. The organization facilitates gift donations through Amazon Wish Lists, monetary contributions via PayPal, and direct partnerships with regional care facilities to identify and serve seniors in need during the holiday season.

Product overview

Senior Angels of the Central Coast operates as a single unified charitable program focused on providing holiday gifts to local seniors in long-term care facilities. The core offering is the Be Santa to a Senior Holiday Wish Program, which coordinates wish list collection from care facilities, Amazon Wish List registry management, monetary donation processing, and volunteer-driven gift delivery. The organization recently introduced a Senior Adoption Program module that extends community engagement beyond the holiday season to provide ongoing companionship to elderly recipients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Be Santa to a Senior Holiday Wish Program

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Vineyard Hills Care CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term care facility in Templeton that provides wish lists from seniors and receives gift deliveries. Activities directors coordinate with Senior Angels to ensure seniors receive holiday gifts.
• Mission View Care CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term care facility in San Luis Obispo that participates in the holiday gift program. Staff gathers senior wish lists and receives gift deliveries coordinated through SignUpGenius.
• The Garden House Morro BaycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCare facility in Morro Bay providing senior wish lists and receiving holiday gift deliveries through the community gift program.
• Arroyo Grande Care CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term care facility in Arroyo Grande participating in the holiday gift program. Coordinates wish list collection and gift distribution for seniors.
• AmazonsupportingGTM or Marketing PartnerHosts the organization's Amazon Wish List registry where community members can view and purchase specific gift requests for seniors. Registry ID: 1NSWXVHH2AUW0
• SignUpGeniussupportingTechnology or IntegrationVolunteer management and event coordination platform used for care facility sign-ups, gift adoption scheduling, and community event organization.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Santa to a Senior (various local chapters): Multiple independent local chapters of community-driven holiday gift programs for seniors in long-term care. Direct functional competitors to Senior Angels' core 'Be Santa to a Senior' offering.
• The Unforgotten Seniors: Nonprofit that gifts holiday care packages to seniors in nursing and assisted-living facilities. Closely comparable operating model — Amazon-style gift collection and facility-based distribution.
• Elder Helpers: Nonprofit facilitating companionship calls and visits between volunteers and isolated seniors — overlapping mission with Senior Angels' adoption and companionship programs.
• Love for the Elderly: Nonprofit that organizes letter-writing, gift, and visit programs for isolated seniors. Operates a similar volunteer-mediated outreach model targeting the same population of lonely elders in care.
• Adopt a Grandparent: Volunteer-driven nonprofit that pairs community members with isolated seniors for companionship and gift-giving — the same companion-adoption model Senior Angels is extending through its Senior Adoption Program.

Broad incumbents

• Papa: Tech-enabled platform that pairs seniors with companions for companionship and daily support. A more commercialized, broader incumbent in the senior companionship space.
• Visiting Angels: National senior home care franchise with locations in the Central Coast region. A broader incumbent touching the same senior population through paid care services.
• AARP Foundation: Large national nonprofit addressing isolation, hunger, and economic security for older Americans. Competes for the same charitable-donor mindshare at a much larger scale.
• Home Instead (Be a Santa to a Senior): The national franchisor behind the 'Be a Santa to a Senior' program that Senior Angels of the Central Coast appears to be affiliated with. Operates a much larger senior-care-giving network across the U.S. and would be the most direct strategic counterpart at scale.

Regional players

• Meals on Wheels of San Luis Obispo County: Local senior welfare nonprofit operating in the same San Luis Obispo geography. Competes for the same donor and volunteer attention pool in the senior-services category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/107304085151868
• Instagraminstagram.com/seniorangelsofthecc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/senior-angels-of-the-central-coast

Compliance1 record

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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