Connecticut · Nonprofit
ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC
ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,600 to it, the largest being POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Alternative Services - Connecticut Inc does
Mission
The organization was established to provide services to developmentally disabled individuals. The organization operates residential facilities, supported living arrangements, day programs, and operates other programs providing support to adults and children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of 16 residential community living arrangements providing clinical services, housing, transportation, and 24-hour supervision for 49 adults with developmental disabilities and physical handicaps.
$7,908,523 spent$12,659,349 earned by the program76% of program spendingOperation of a residential support program which provides clinical services, transportation, and life skills for 23 adults with developmental disabilities and physical handicaps.
$2,078,310 spent20% of program spendingOperation of an adult day treatment program which provides activities, training support and evaluation techniques for 28 adults with developmental disabilities and physical handicaps.
$444,342 spent4% of program spendingOther private pay services to developmentally disabled adults and children
$2,133 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,433,308.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $6.7M (+32%).
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.
0% of ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
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
Muhammad Shabazz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT 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 SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC.
“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
ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Community Living Concepts Inc · exempt
- Alternative Services Inc · exempt
- Alternative Services - Oregon Inc · exempt
- Alternative Services - Northeast Inc · exempt
- Carpe Diem Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC?
- ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,600 to it, the largest being POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,600 in grants to ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC?
- POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2 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