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ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC

ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,611 to it, the largest being EAST HILL FOUNDATION ($66,748). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$236k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$130k
Net assets
$137k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Alternative Care Services of Wny Inc does

Mission

Provide meals to residents that are home bound or are unable to cook for themselves

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided about 33,369 meals to about 105 elderly people in the alden ny area. 10,434 volunteer hours were logged in; and approximately $20,214 of donated goods were received.

    $196,216 spent$117,075 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,216.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2018 Revenue 101 ($115k) Expenses 105 ($117k) Net assets 94 ($32k)2019 Revenue 102 ($117k) Expenses 115 ($127k) Net assets 63 ($21k)2020 Revenue 184 ($209k) Expenses 139 ($154k) Net assets 228 ($77k)2021 Revenue 125 ($143k) Expenses 124 ($138k) Net assets 244 ($82k)2022 Revenue 128 ($145k) Expenses 120 ($133k) Net assets 281 ($94k)2023 Revenue 176 ($200k) Expenses 170 ($188k) Net assets 316 ($106k)2024 Revenue 207 ($236k) Expenses 186 ($206k) Net assets 407 ($137k)
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Revenue (207)Expenses (186)Net assets (407)

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 $23k to $79k (+243%).

$35k
$33k
$23k
$79k
$87k
$98k
$108k
$137k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 7% · 2023 10%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$11k
’19
$56k
’20
$5k
’21
$12k
’22
$12k
’23
$30k
’24
5.8
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed8771111
Joined·+0+0+7+0
No longer listed·1030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $44.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY 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

ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC.

51%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’22
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC?
ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,611 to it, the largest being EAST HILL FOUNDATION ($66,748). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $129,611 in grants to ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC?
EAST HILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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