New Jersey · Nonprofit
Community Options Enterprises Inc
Community Options Enterprises Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,500 to it, the largest being Kessler Foundation Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Community Options Enterprises Inc does
Mission
To develop entrepreneurial businesses employing persons with disabilities within a supported employment paradigm and to train persons with disabilities to be placed into competitive employment and day supports while managing commercial buildings enhancing employment opportunities. Presents of mind is a speciality store with cyber applications utilizing inventory for mission advancement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employment services and day habilitation- persons with disabilities are trained in various job skills. The daily plan it: a business support center providing various administrative services. Vasefull flowers and gifts: a floral shop where disabled persons are trained.
$11,530,867 spentof which $10,673 as grants$18,797,246 earned by the program65% of program spendingResidential services- provides housing and other residential services to individuals with disabilities. The purpose is to empower persons with disabilities to live productive lives within the community.
$6,155,536 spentof which $317,440 as grants$958,077 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,686,403.
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 $16M to $25M (+57%).
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 66% · 2018 50% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 37% · 2022 17% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Community Options Enterprises Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Phil Lian
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $35k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Options Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Options Enterprises Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Options Enterprises 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 Options Enterprises Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 Options Enterprises Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Options Enterprises Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Options Enterprises Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Community Options Enterprises Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85.2M on record.
- GRANT IN AID$63.9M
- FEDERAL$21.1M
- DEDICATED$129k
- BOND FUND$46k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$161
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 Options Enterprises 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 Jersey
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
92%
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 18 related entities
- Community Options Inc · exempt
- Community Options New York Inc · exempt
- Career Services for Persons With Disab · exempt
- Community Options Properties Inc · exempt
- Community Options El Paso Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Options Enterprises Inc?
- Community Options Enterprises Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,500 to it, the largest being Kessler Foundation Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Options Enterprises Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $72,500 in grants to Community Options Enterprises Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Options Enterprises Inc?
- Kessler Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Options Enterprises Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 3 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