Indiana · Nonprofit
ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY
ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,354,509 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($1,124,491). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Alternatives Incorporated of Madison County does
Mission
Alternatives incorporated strives to eradicate domestic and sexual violence through education, prevention, and intervention in central indiana. The organization exists to promote the right of all persons to live in a loving, caring, safe and secure envirionment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency housing services provide immediate refuge for domestic and sexual violence survivors. Staff provide advocacy, support, and assistance to help survivors move past their initial crisis and toward a stable future. Services include food, clothing, transportation, personal care items, safety planning, advocacy, crisis response, individualized case management, and referrals. Alternatives incorporated's service area includes hamilton, hancock, henry, madison, marion, and tipton counties. In fiscal year 2024, emergency housing was provided for 94 adults and 117 children for a total of 5,277 bed days.
$686,262 spentof which $37,508 as grants$54,504 earned by the program41% of program spendingLong-term housing provides opportunities for survivors to move from short-term safety to long-term security and includes on-site transitional housing, scattered-site transitional housing, and rapid rehousing. The program provides individualized case management focused on safety, financial stability, and building essential life skills. Alternatives inc. Assists with living expenses, while survivors save and plan for the future. The housing units are located in madison county. In fiscal year 2024, 48 adults and 97 children were served in the long-term housing program.
$597,685 spentof which $324,544 as grants36% of program spendingNonresidential services include 24-hour crisis response; on-scene advocacy at hospitals, worksites, and public locations; court and medical appointment accompaniment; protective order filing assistance; danger assessments; safety planning; case management; and continual advocacy and support for survivors not seeking housing. Services are trauma-informed and designed to be mobile and include virtual options to reduce barriers for survivors. Staff also provide specialized training for community partners and participate in awareness and education opportunities with the general public. Certified law enforcement training is provided as part of our coordinated community response to domestic violence. This past year alternatives inc. Provided direct services to 164 unduplicated new survivors through our nonresidential program. Presentations were provided for 544 community members/professionals.
$386,948 spentof which $10,890 as grants23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,670,895.
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 $3.2M to $3.3M (+5%).
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 46% · 2018 50% · 2019 53% · 2020 47% · 2021 62% · 2022 58% · 2023 60% · 2024 60% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Johna Y Lee
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $262k → $223k.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 29 funders by total. 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 INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 62% · 2019 52% · 2020 68% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
91% of ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $543k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY: 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 INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY?
- ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,354,509 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($1,124,491). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,354,509 in grants to ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,124,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 29 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