Senior Care · registry year 2024 · HQ MD
Senior Helpers Franchise
A Caring Brands International brand operating in the senior care sector, franchising since 2005. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Senior Helpers, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $67K – $145K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 370
- Total locations · Small network
- $1.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry senior-helpers Senior Helpers
Senior Helpers needs $67K–$145K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical senior care franchise.
- LO $67K
- HI $145K
- FEE $50K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 370
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #184/223
- UNT# #161/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Assisting Hands ($68K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Senior Helpers (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Senior Helpers's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.7% net unit growth (YoY) 51/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Senior Helpers's investment ranks nationally
Senior Helpers's listed Item 7 low of $67K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Senior Helpers vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$67,000 Among the lowest lower than 84% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $50K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.2M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Senior Care
- Subsector
- in home care
- Founded
- 2002
- Franchising Since
- 2005
- Headquarters
- MD
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Senior Helpers
This Senior Helpers page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Senior Helpers.
Compact-network entry costs for Senior Helpers
Signature read: 370 locations · Item 7 low $67K
Senior Helpers, a Caring Brands International franchise, has been franchising since 2005 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 2002 , currently with 370 total locations (370 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the senior care sector, headquartered in MD. The registry records a total initial investment between $67K and $145K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $50K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Ongoing royalties run 5.0% of gross sales. Senior Helpers has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.2M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $60K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Senior Helpers's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 2.7% net rate over the past year (20 openings, 10 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Senior Helpers: Understanding FDDs , Senior Helpers lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Senior Helpers's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Senior Helpers , both outside HQ state MD : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($67K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (370 here).
What to do with this
Senior Helpers at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Senior Helpers scores 76/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $67K – $145K entry cost runs below the typical senior care franchise.
- Ranks #184 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Assisting Hands sits at a comparable investment level ($68K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
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