New York · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACCESS INC
COMMUNITY ACCESS INC (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,156,626 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,657,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Community Access Inc does
Mission
Community access expands opportunities for people living with mental health concerns to recover from trauma and discrimination through affordable housing, training, advocacy, and healing-focused services. We are built on the simple truth that people are experts in their own lives. Values: - human rights - peer expertise - self-determination - harm reduction - racial equity - healing and recovery
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing: we provide supportive and transitional housing to individuals and families at 20 buildings and at leased apartments in manhattan, brooklyn, and the bronx. Our tenants include many people with living with mental health concerns who have also experienced homelessness. Many of our sites include affordable units for families, a model that has proven highly successful in promoting community integration. In addition to providing housing, we offer a number of programs to improve our residents' quality of life, including pet access, a pet adoption program, and the urban farming initiative, which offers participants opportunities to work together to plant, nurture and harvest food, as well as increasing awareness of nutrition and food justice issues effecting our community. In total, we provide housing and related services to more than 3,000 individuals.
$28,152,109 spent$32,521,591 earned by the program71% of program spendingTreatment services and residential crisis support: our residential crisis support program is new york city's first peer-driven alternative to hospitalization program for individuals experiencing an emotional crisis. Assertive community treatment (act) and intensive mobile treatment (imt) programs help people with mental health concerns in the nyc shelter system or who otherwise lack permanent housing to access permanent housing and mental health services. Our self-directed care (sdc) program provides people with resources to reach their wellness goals, alongside skilled resource consultants who help to develop recovery action plans and budgets. Our art collective uses art as a healing tool for helping people to further their skills as artists and leaders within their community. Our treatment services and crisis support programs serve more than 1,000 people each year.
$10,784,615 spent$11,994,589 earned by the program27% of program spendingTraining and education: in 1995, we launched the howie the harp advocacy center (hth) to train and place individuals with a history of mental health concerns, homelessness, substance use, and incarceration into competitive employment in the health and human services sector. More than 1,200 people have graduated from the training, and a satellite hth program was created in 2012 and is now operating in four cities in the netherlands. Blueprint supported education helps individuals living with mental health issues to pursue post-secondary education. Our training and education programs serve approximately 400 people each year.
$875,556 spent$1,047,746 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,812,280.
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 2018 to 2019, from $16M to $32M (+107%).
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: 2021 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of COMMUNITY ACCESS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Carolyn Hedigan
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $324k → $902k.
13 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 COMMUNITY ACCESS 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
COMMUNITY ACCESS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 COMMUNITY ACCESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 24% · 2019 41% · 2020 24% · 2021 64% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% — 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
48% of COMMUNITY ACCESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
56% of COMMUNITY ACCESS 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. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
COMMUNITY ACCESS INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ACCESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.7M
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 COMMUNITY ACCESS 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 59 related entities
- Ca Concern LLC · disregarded
- Access House Inc · exempt
- 347 East 4th Street Hdfc Inc · exempt
- 202 West 108 Street Hdfc Inc · exempt
- 258 East 4th Street Hdfc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS INC?
- COMMUNITY ACCESS INC (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,156,626 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,657,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACCESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $6,156,626 in grants to COMMUNITY ACCESS INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACCESS INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,657,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACCESS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 53 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