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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,381,100 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($1,030,735). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$19M
Funders on record
54
Grants received
$8.4M
Net assets
$3.9M
30/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Center for Community Alternatives Inc does

Mission

To promote reintegrative justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Youth services: cca offers an array of programs serving at-risk youth in new york city and syracuse, new york. In nyc, cca oversees all facility-based after-school and career exploration programming at horizon and crossroads youth detention centers. Cca's youth advocacy program provides nyc youth with alternatives to incarceration. Youth also have access to mentoring and the youth pathways program which offers work readiness and paid internship opportunities in fields such as music, fashion and culinary arts. In syracuse, cca's transition advocate programs provide services within the city of syracuse school district designed to keep youth in school as well as to help out-of-school youth return to school. Cca also provides after-school programming for high school students in syracuse as well as violence prevention education and peer educator training to middle and high school-aged students. 2024 approx. Number of individuals service was provided for: youth services: 1,309.

    $6,676,908 spent$4,500 earned by the program
    41% of program spending

  2. Recovery & treatment services: cca's crossroads are oasas-licensed substance use outpatient treatment and med assisted programs in nyc which provides gender-specific services to men and women with criminal justice involvement. In syracuse, cca partners with crouse chemical dependency treatment services to provide substance use treatment for individuals being released from onondaga correctional facilities. Cca also operates recovery and outreach centers in syracuse and rochester, new york. These centers support the development of strong, healthy peer communities and collaborations with partner agencies which evidence has shown are key elements in successful recovery. 2024 approx. Number of individuals service was provided for: recovery and treatment: 891

    $3,737,907 spent$666,132 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

  3. Reintegration services: cca offers an array of employment-related services for individuals with criminal justice involvement including cognitive behavioral interventions, transitional planning, job readiness and job development training as well as job placement and job retention. Cca also assists participants to connect with educational and vocational training opportunities including internship and apprenticeship opportunities. In addition, cca's reentry clinic provides civic restoration legal services to assist individuals with criminal records overcome employment, educational, and housing barriers associated with a criminal record. 2024 approx. Number of individuals service was provided for: reintegration services: 338

    $1,864,518 spent$1,040 earned by the program
    12% of program spending

  4. Other program services include mitigation services (130 individuals), advocacy & organizing (100 individuals), housing services (60 individuals), and alternatives to incarceration/alternatives to detention (100 individuals).

    $3,889,025 spent$5,062 earned by the program
    24% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,168,358.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 107 ($8.3M) Expenses 106 ($7.9M) Net assets 124 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 127 ($9.9M) Expenses 122 ($9.2M) Net assets 167 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 151 ($12M) Expenses 162 ($12M) Net assets 147 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 167 ($13M) Expenses 164 ($12M) Net assets 193 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 207 ($16M) Expenses 212 ($16M) Net assets 209 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 244 ($19M) Expenses 243 ($18M) Net assets 255 ($4.2M)2024 Revenue 241 ($19M) Expenses 254 ($19M) Net assets 239 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (241)Expenses (254)Net assets (239)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.9M to $12M (+105%).

$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.8M
$5.8M
$5.9M
$12M
$15M
$15M
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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: 2017 87% · 2018 92% · 2019 84% · 2020 88% · 2021 88% · 2022 86% · 2023 83% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (25% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 150 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$290k
’17
$390k
’18
$717k
’19
−$336k
’20
$761k
’21
$274k
’22
$753k
’23
−$265k
’24
0.4
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.

Chief executive

David Condliffe

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1516253344475464
Joined·+3+11+9+13+7+9+14
No longer listed·2212424
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $254k → $2.0M.

Funder
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total
Fwdus Incunclassified
$308k
Robin Hood Foundationunclassified
$78k
funders
8
5
8
15
23
23
23
26
13

14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC.

12%
largest funder
31%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 54% · 2019 35% · 2020 34% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 33% — 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

63% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NJ
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CA
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OK
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Against its field

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC has grown faster than half of the 149 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.4M on record.

Federal$14.4M
grants $14.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$9.0M
  • Department of Labor$4.0M
  • Department of Justice$1.1M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$356k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES 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

Community Connections for Youth Inc81%Common Justice Inc80%Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center Inc79%Center for Transformative Action79%National Action Network Inc79%The Center for Community Justice Inc78%Center for Governmental Research78%Center for Artistic Activism Inc78%

Nationally

Center for Community Change Action84%Center for Community Change83%Comprehensive Community Action Inc81%Community Connections for Youth Inc81%Center for Effective Public Policy Inc81%Community Catalyst Inc81%Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc81%Community Reach Center Systems Inc80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

51
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Nyccabuds LLC · partnership
  • Cca Buds Syracuse Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,381,100 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($1,030,735). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC have?
IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $8,381,100 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,030,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES 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 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing