Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc
Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,738 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($145,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc does
Mission
Families Creating Communities for Adults with Special Needs, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization supporting individuals with disabilities ages 16+ and their families. Families CCAN empowers individuals of all abilities and their families to create self-directed, fulfilling lives in the community. Our work is guided by people with disabilities and the understanding that independence is different for each person. We provide learning opportunities, personalized support, and inclusive programs that create community, build social connections, and open doors to housing, employment, and civic life. We advance the strengths, goals and rights of all individuals to participate fully and meaningfully in their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
WORKSHOPSFamilies CCAN supports families and individuals to address long-range planning and readiness using a person-centered and strengths-based approach. Our Peer to Peer Workshop employs peer instructors to teach other individuals with disabilities how to successfully live in the community, with supports. Instructors are currently living in the community and provide important guidance on: How to manage and budget funds, how to organize time and space, how to plan and prepare meals, and other topics that surface. We offer this virtual 5-session Workshop 3x per year and have 6-10 enrollees (individuals with disabilities) each time. We sponsored a virtual Empowering Independence Workshop for individuals with disabilities along with a family member. This 5-session Workshop is offered for a fee and is very popular with transition-aged youth planning for post high-school. We focus on creating a vision for independence based on an individuals strengths and interests, identifying important people for supports, identifying readiness goals & practicing steps to meet them, and making the planning ahead process more manageable.
$27,444 spent28% of program spendingCOMMUNITY PROGRAMS OFFERED FREE OF CHARGEWe sponsor free Monthly Resource meetings on a virtual platform. We hosted a total of 11 meetings in FY2025 on topics such as: Financial Planning Basics, Busting Housing Myths, Health and Wellness, Transition from High School. Average attendance is 35 families, individuals and service providers/professionals. We often feature individuals with disabilities teaching from lived experience.We offer a popular free cooking program called Families CCAN Cook. We have now hosted over 140 sessions of this virtual instructor-led cooking session designed to help individuals with disabilities learn cooking skills and make dinner in 1 hour. Participants join from their own kitchens and learn how to measure, cut, chop, use utensils and kitchen tools, and some nutrition basics. This program draws participants from across the state of Pennsylvania. Weekly attendance has grown to an average of 14 participants per session.For the 3rd year we have hosted quarterly, in-person Meet-ups for individuals and families living in and adjacent to Delaware County, Pennsylvania. These free gatherings promote connections, relationship-building and resource-sharing in a…
$30,559 spent32% of program spendingADDITIONAL SERVICES OFFERED Families CCAN provides individualized consultation services to support families and individuals through Family Navigation. Trained staff provide guidance for issues such as: establishing direction for independence, finding resources, building community connections or creating a Personal Support Network. Family Navigation services are billed on an hourly basis.
$5,220 spent5% of program spendingGRANT-SUPPORTED INITIATIVESFamilies CCAN completed its 2-year grant with the PA Developmental Disabilities Council on a project to dismantle myths about housing for individuals with disabilities. The grant team included partner SAU1, a disability advocacy organization. The team wrote and delivered two virtual presentations and created an on-line resource publication. The presentation was given live to over 520 individuals, both virtually and in-person. The grant concluded on June 30, 2025. Grant funding from Lower Merion Township (Lower Merion, PA) is enabling Families CCAN to build an inclusive network of older adults and individuals with disabilities, called Lower Merion Village. This local connected web of neighbors and volunteers will bring resources, assistance, programming and volunteer opportunities to enable folks to successfully age in place. Building strong community ties provides a safety net for individuals with disabilities as well. The Village (not a true space but a metaphor) is connected to a national movement of Elder Villages. Project funding through this grant ended on June 30, 2025. Families CCAN continues to support this project.
$33,191 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,414.
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 2021 to 2022, from $71k to $47k (−34%).
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.
94% of Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Allan Crimm
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $27k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs 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
Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs 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 Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc?
- Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,738 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($145,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $173,738 in grants to Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $145,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Families Creating Communities for Adults With Special Needs Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 4 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