New York · Nonprofit
COMUNILIFE INC
COMUNILIFE INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,765,464 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($653,338). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Comunilife Inc does
Mission
To provide vulnerable communities with housing & culturally sensitive supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Permanent housing with associated social services and rent supports for persons living with hiv/aids:comunilife provided 877 units of permanent supportive housing for people living with hiv/aids including 413 units of congregate housing and 464 units of scatter site housing. Funding is used for supportive services and rent support with the goal of providing housing stability and improved health outcomes.
$20,974,496 spent$736,966 earned by the program31% of program spendingTransitional and stabilization housing for the chronically homeless:comunilife provided 273 units of transitional housing for the chronically homeless and street homeless. This housing provides housing, meals, and case management services in two safe haven residences with a total of 117 units, 100 units of family housing.
$16,471,758 spent24% of program spendingTransitional and permanent housing with associated social services and rent support for people living with mental illness:comunilife provided transitional and permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless adults living with mental illness. Comunilife provided 750 units of permanent supportive housing including 606 units of scatter site housing, 183 units of congregate housing in 4 residences, and 20 units of transitional housing.
$20,866,737 spent$2,137,487 earned by the program31% of program spendingOther program services: suicide prevention activities for at-risk teens. Our life is precious program (2008) provides treatment and adjacent services to teens at risk of suicide who reside in the bronx, brooklyn, queens, and manhattan as well as amsterdam, hempstead, poughkeepsie, and yonkers, new york. 268 teens received services that include academic support, creative arts therapies, music lessons, wellness activities, and concrete family services. The services are designed to reduce the risk factors associated with adolescent suicide. In addition to its core activities, lip also provides civic engagement activities, community education and awareness, and enhanced parent/family engagement services.medical respite services: in 2025, respite served 306 people. Our medical respite program provides short-term transitional housing, housing navigation and care coordination services to multiply-challenged patients leaving hospital care without a viable home in which to recuperate. With contracts from hospitals, managed care companies, and other health related organizations, respite, with an average stay of 53 days, helps break the cycle of shelter-to-hospital-to-shelter that many…
$9,135,876 spent$5,165,085 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,448,867.
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 $35M to $57M (+61%).
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 81% · 2018 88% · 2019 87% · 2020 82% · 2022 50% · 2023 86% · 2024 85% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of COMUNILIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Blanca Ramirez
President & CEO (as of 3/18/24)
Board chair
Carlos Pineiro
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $14k → $1.4M.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 COMUNILIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
COMUNILIFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 COMUNILIFE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 22% · 2019 59% · 2020 49% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 36% — 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
42% of COMUNILIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
77% of COMUNILIFE 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. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMUNILIFE INC is better cushioned than half of the 95 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMUNILIFE 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 49 related entities
- 1815 West Farms Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 280 Burnside Hdfc · exempt
- Comunlife Woodhull Housing Developement Fund · exempt
- Comunilife la Central Hdfc · exempt
- Comunilife Prospect Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMUNILIFE 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 COMUNILIFE INC?
- COMUNILIFE INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,765,464 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($653,338). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMUNILIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,765,464 in grants to COMUNILIFE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMUNILIFE INC?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $653,338 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMUNILIFE 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 40 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