New York · Nonprofit
ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN
ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,277 to it, the largest being Rommel Wilson Memorial Fund Inc ($320,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $337k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Alternatives for Children does
Mission
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center operates an educational facility to provide special education and therapeutic services for preschool children with handicapping conditions. The preschool served 1,096 children during fiscal year 2025.
$28,234,070 spent$31,334,988 earned by the program98% of program spendingThe center operates an educational facility to provide special education and therapeutic services for early intervention children with handicapping conditions. The early intervention program served 270 children during fiscal year 2025.
$490,763 spent$497,222 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe center operates a year round child care program for all children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. The daycare center served 61 children during fiscal year 2025.
$90,096 spent$179,004 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,814,929.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $17M (+20%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dr Matthew Krivoshey
Executive director
Board chair
James Buzzetta
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $60k.
From the IRS filings of ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN’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
ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 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
99% of ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN'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. 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 ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN: 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 ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN?
- ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,277 to it, the largest being Rommel Wilson Memorial Fund Inc ($320,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $337,277 in grants to ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN?
- Rommel Wilson Memorial Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN 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 5 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