New Jersey · Nonprofit
Community Options Inc
Community Options Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,301,423 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $393M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $80M
What Community Options Inc does
Mission
Community options believes in the dignity of every person, and in the freedom of all people to experience the highest degree of self-determination. Embracing this philosophy, community options provides housing, support services, and advocacy assistance to help empower people with disabilities. Community options, inc. Develops residential and employment supports for people with severe disabilities, utilizing technology and training. As a national agency, community options has participated in institutional closure and community residential placement for thousands of people across several states. Community options does not administer any large congregate programs, recognizing that people with the most severe disabilities need environments, equipment, clinical and staff support that are tailored to their very specific needs. In its history, the agency has developed a reputation for quality, cost-effective administration that encourages individual choice and flexibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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.
$300,672,367 spentof which $8,564,058 as grants$374,365,807 earned by the program89% of program spendingProvides employment counseling and support services to individuals with disabilities. The purpose is to increase the individual's self-esteem while enabling them to contribute to the community.
$37,869,800 spentof which $475,442 as grants11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $338,542,167.
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 2024 to 2025, from $230M to $291M (+26%).
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 28% · 2018 19% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Community Options Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Robert Stack
CEO/president
Board chair
Dorothy Goodwin
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $101k → $521k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dr Clarence York Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Options Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Options Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 Options Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 68% · 2020 55% · 2021 68% · 2022 52% · 2023 96% — 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
24% of Community Options Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
Community Options Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241k 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 Options Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Community Options Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $381.3M on record — $20k federal, $381.3M state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$20k
- GRANT IN AID$273.2M
- FEDERAL$91.1M
- DEDICATED$15.9M
- BOND FUND$957k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$46k
- TRUST FUND$28k
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 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Community Options New York Inc · exempt
- Community Options Enterprises Inc · exempt
- Career Services for Persons With Disab · exempt
- Community Options Properties Inc · exempt
- Community Options El Paso Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Options 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Options Inc?
- Community Options Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,301,423 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Options Inc have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,301,423 in grants to Community Options Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Options Inc?
- NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Options 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.
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 41 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