Virginia · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC
COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,287 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Community Alternatives Inc does
Mission
To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Virginia programs:(1) work programs - the work programs, also referred to as sheltered workshops, are designed to provide services to adults with mental retardation who provide primary assembly and food service.the work program's mission is to provide vocational training in the least restrictive environment.community alternatives, inc. (cai) surveys its employees and strives to ensure each consumer has a number of options available to them in each level of support. Work programs provide services that fit the needs of each individual served.cai government contracts provides food service at the little creek galley.beach packaging is cai's sheltered workshop. It is a small business specializing in packaging and sub-assembly. Services provided include skill assessment, job development, job training, work adjustment and self-help skills. All training and skills development offered at the work programs support the primary mission of employability.(2) in-home services - cai provides in-home services to adults with mental retardation and/or mental health issues, often coupled with physical disabilities. Referrals are received throughout the tidewater area, including virginia beach,…
$7,377,443 spent$7,989,981 earned by the program54% of program spendingNorth carolina programs:(1) c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Services - community atlernatives, inc. (doing business as community choices, inc. In north carolina) operates the c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Program in charlotte, north carolina. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Provides services for women who are pregnant and/or parenting. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Is an acronym for courage and support for changing attitudes, dependencies and environments. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Is a holistic, gender-specific substance abuse treatment program for pregnant, postpartum and parenting adult women and their children. The purpose of c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Is to support women of childbearing age and their children by interrupting the cycle of addiction, decreasing the morbidity and mortality that is related to substance misuse, increasing positive birth outcomes, decreasing the cost of health care, and promoting well families through healthy lifestyles.c.a.s.c.a.d.e.'s vision is to ensure that women of childbearing age, who are at-risk for chemical dependency, and their children, have easy access and choices from a comprehensive, humane, seamless system of services that include the needed capacity for public awareness, treatment, and aftercare which produce…
$6,241,207 spent$3,233,576 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,618,650.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.2M to $17M (+220%).
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 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 16% · 2021 33% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% · 2024 19% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Vincent S Gallo
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $59.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ALTERNATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 ALTERNATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ALTERNATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 ALTERNATIVES INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Community Alternatives Management Group Inc · exempt
- Camg A · exempt
- Camg B · exempt
- Camg C · exempt
- Camg D · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,287 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,287 in grants to COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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