New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 208 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,679,430 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($87,250,000). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116M
- Funders on record
- 208
- Grants received
- $234M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Center for Employment Opportunities Inc does
Mission
We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transition work program - immediate work for daily pay: as described above, after orientation, ceo program participants work on transitional work crews. Each transitional work crew is comprised of approximately 5-8 participants who work for, and are paid by, ceo. Each transitional work crew is run and supervised by a site supervisor, a permanent ceo employee. In fy2025, ceo provided transitional employment to 8,145 formerly incarcerated persons through its 30 offices. Ceo's transitional work crews are typically funded by the entity receiving the crew services. Ceo has established contractual relationships with a variety of government agencies (such as public works departments, housing authorities, and transportation departments) and certain private employers for services including but not limited to groundskeeping, building maintenance, litter abatement, and event setup and breakdown. The transitional work setting benefits participants in several ways. First, all participants can begin working immediately after completing orientation. Ceo pays each member of a work crew on a daily basis, providing an important source of income. The daily pay schedule eliminates the income timing…
$60,542,906 spentof which $8,234 as grants55% of program spendingVocational training: concurrent with transitional work, ceo provides vocational training and support services. During the period that participants are working on transitional work crews, they typically meet with a job coach one day per week. Job coaches reinforce the lessons learned during transitional work, coach participants on job performance and behaviors, and assist participants with any issues that may arise during their transitional work experience. During this time ceo also offers workshops for participants to build financial skills, improve digital literacy, and effectively complete online job applications. After a participant shows consistent, high-performing workplace behaviors, has interview skills, and has resolved external barriers to employment, job coaches assess the participant as "job start ready and assign them to a business account manager (bam). Bams work directly with employers to identify labor market needs and potential job opportunities. Bams then match eligible participants with employers. Since becoming an independent nonprofit organization in 1996, ceo has made more than 51,000 full-time job placements for formerly incarcerated individuals. In fy2024,…
$47,932,606 spentof which $2,717,614 as grants44% of program spendingCeo's inclusive hiring initiative is a demand side approach to increasing employment opportunities for job seekers with past convictions. Ceo works to assist mid-sized and large private sector employers in improving their hiring and talent practices with a view to creating more job opportunities and career mobility for job seekers with past convictions. In addition, the inclusive hiring program provides support to prospective employers in building local employment pipelines for job seekers across multiple markets, including cities where ceo operates. Consistent with ceo's mission, this effort seeks to educate employers and policymakers through a variety of in-person and online learning activities.
$1,145,229 spentof which $2,275 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,620,741.
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 2023 to 2024, from $53M to $83M (+56%).
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 74% · 2018 57% · 2019 65% · 2020 55% · 2021 57% · 2022 69% · 2023 71% · 2024 56% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% 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
Samuel Schaeffer
CEO & executive director
Board chair
David I Moskovitz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 94 funders, grant income rose $8.6M → $25M.
42 of 208 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 208 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 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 45% · 2019 45% · 2020 56% · 2021 28% · 2022 33% · 2023 39% — 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
47% of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 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
69% of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 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. $73M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 27 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 27 employment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record — $5.3M federal, $38k state.
- Department of Labor$4.8M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$414k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$50k
- Mtce-Rep.-Bldgs-grnds-Vendor$38k
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 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ceo Reentry Employment Solutions LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 208 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,679,430 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($87,250,000). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 208 organizations giving $233,679,430 in grants to CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC, 119 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $87,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 208 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