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COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC

COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being FIFTH THIRD CHICAGOLAND FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$750
Net assets
$2.3M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Community Service Options Inc does

Mission

Cso promotes access,choice of service, options and independence to individuals with disabilities who reside in the city of chicago through the provision of information, education, advocacy and planning/service coordination.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cso provide preadmission screening, eligibility determination and service coordination for people with developmental disabilities, in chicago.cso is part of national system,federally mandated to be completely independent and free-standing of local direct service provision.

    $5,020,614 spent$119,735 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,020,614.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 112 ($4.8M) Expenses 114 ($4.7M) Net assets 101 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 118 ($5.0M) Expenses 120 ($5.0M) Net assets 101 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 119 ($5.1M) Expenses 132 ($5.5M) Net assets 85 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 137 ($5.8M) Expenses 137 ($5.7M) Net assets 91 ($2.3M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (137)Expenses (137)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

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 $2.9M to $2.4M (−17%).

$3.1M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$2.4M
$2.6M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$94k
’21
$28k
’22
$4k
’23
−$410k
’24
$139k
’25
1.5
months of
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

David Ogunbode

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed66667
Joined·+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·0002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY SERVICE 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY SERVICE 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 SERVICE OPTIONS INC?
COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being FIFTH THIRD CHICAGOLAND FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750 in grants to COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC?
FIFTH THIRD CHICAGOLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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