New York · Nonprofit
A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC
A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,757 to it, the largest being THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION ($150,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $10M
What A Very Special Place Inc does
Mission
To empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to lead fuller lives through comprehensive programs and services offering guidance, support, and opportunities for achieving independence, self-fulfillment, and full community inclusion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal intermediary - work with individuals and families to self direct the services they want within their community. Provide services within staten island, brooklyn and manhattan served approximately 900 individuals.
$28,714,927 spent$31,954,336 earned by the program62% of program spendingResidential habilitation services - provide residential support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live in the community whether in supportive apartments or in supervised individualized residential alternatives. Served approximately 68 individuals.
$8,518,457 spent$8,456,837 earned by the program18% of program spendingDay habilitation centers - our day hab centers provide learning and enhancing of skills to live fuller lives within the communities, from basic living skills to attaining employment. Respite programs also located at grasmere, provide recreational and social supports for each person to live a fuller more independent life. The centers are located in new dorp and grasmere, and serve over 520 people 6 days a week.
$7,723,980 spent$10,110,305 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther program services include self-directed services, community center, community habitation, supported employment, and respite programs.
$1,485,244 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,442,608.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $22M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jacqueline Scarcella
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $325 → $6k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 87% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC?
- A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,757 to it, the largest being THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION ($150,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $203,757 in grants to A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC?
- THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing