New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,076,100 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC has grown faster than half of the 149 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Incshared funders
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacyportfolio match
- Coalition for Public Safetyportfolio match
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.
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 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 (34% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $254k → $2.0M.
14 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 53 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 13% 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
49% 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.
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; 57% 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
72% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC'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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 53 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coalition for Public Safetyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vera Institute of Justice Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equality Alliance of San Diegoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Nonviolenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justleadershipusa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Care in Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Women's Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 250 organizations near you
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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.
- 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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nyccabuds LLC · partnership
- Cca Buds Syracuse Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,076,100 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 53 organizations giving $8,076,100 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.
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 53funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing