Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC
EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $824,138 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($170,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $824k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Employment Options Inc does
Mission
To empower individuals with families in mental health recovery to thrive in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clubhouse is a place where adults recovering from mental illness help each other to find employment, housing, advocacy, education, parenting, support and wellness. The options clubhouse located in marlborough, ma, is where individuals (18+) support each other and learn valuable skills to move their lives forward. By working as a team, the members of the clubhouse gain meaningful employment and the skills to get that next job, build integral life skills, interact more socially with their peers and the community and, in turn, achieve personal growth. With each other's support, members work to transform their lives and empower one another to achieve their full potential, be a better parent and family member and get back into the workplace with meaningful employment.
$2,501,716 spent$2,403,027 earned by the program90% of program spendingCatering options is a social enterprise of employment options. Catering options empowers the individuals we serve to improve their mental health through meaningful employment. The job entry and reentry process is extremely crucial for individuals in recovery to live fully productive, self-sufficient lives. Catering options not only provides jobs but facilitates job readiness as well as placement and job retention in the food service industry. The program offers three lines of business in the food services industry: full service catering events, a la carte services, and bulk/school lunches. Through catering options, members work in a variety of settings throughout our service area including a charter school, local businesses, corporations, and nonprofit organizations.
$290,104 spent$1,086,558 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,791,820.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.4M to $4.2M (+24%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Shannon Leary
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $59k → $136k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 EMPLOYMENT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
38% 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 EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 37% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
73% of EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k 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
EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.1M on record.
- MA$13.6M
- OR$8.5M
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 EMPLOYMENT 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 1 related entity
- Options Properties · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPLOYMENT 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 EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC?
- EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $824,138 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($170,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $824,138 in grants to EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 25 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