New York · Nonprofit
HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC
HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,344 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($385,150). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $829k
- Net assets
- $36M
What Head Injury Association Inc does
Mission
To provide services to the developmentally disabled and traumatic brain injury survivors in order to maximize their potential to help them achieve individualization, independence, productivity and integration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Head injury association undertook other services include community habilitation, supportive employment, service coordination, community integration counseling, independent living skills training and positive behavioral interventions and support during 2024. Program: family support grants is combined with other services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Residential services - office for people with developmental disabilities - persons with head injuries need options to live as independently as possible. The lack of accessible, reasonable and safe housing has prevented many individuals from realizing their goals, which result in a loss of realistic lifetime planning. The head injury association has made a commitment to develop a creative range of housing opportunities across long island to meet a variety of care/support needs for individuals. Our residential program is designed to provide supervised housing opportunities for persons with traumatic brain injury through community residences and/or supportive apartments and condominiums. The focus of the residential program is to provide individuals with training designed to enhance independence, individualization and to ensure the promotion of community integration. Residents are assisted in designing a life plan that meets their needs and ensures adequate support and services, as well as providing sufficient opportunities to participate in community activities of their choice.the head injury association plans to expand housing opportunities to persons with traumatic injuries in…
$23,175,378 spent$26,192,946 earned by the program65% of program spendingDay habilitation program- head injury association provides services to members under new york state office for people with developmental disabilities in the community and a site based group day program setting. This program is designed to help survivors of head injury and individuals with intellectual or physical disabilities recognize their skills and interests. Daily programming consists of structured activity centers including art therapy, horticulture, music/choir, cognitive skills development, information technology, recreation and sports, activities of daily living, preforming arts, culinary, and relaxation techniques such as reiki, yoga, dance therapy, pet therapy etc. During day program each individual is recognized according to his or her own interests, goals and abilities for the purpose of increasing their social, educational and career skills.
$7,892,934 spent$8,954,256 earned by the program22% of program spendingOther services -head injury association provides other services in the community to members under new york state office for people with developmental disabilities and department of health waiver funding streams. Community waiver programs include community habilitation, supportive employment, family support, service coordination, community integration counseling, independent living skills training and positive behavioral interventions and support. Service coordination - the service coordinators at the head injury association provide a variety of services to survivors of traumatic brain injury, by working in partnership with the individual to enable him or her to live and participate in the community according to their personal goals, preferences and needs. The community programs provide one-to-one individual, customized support and services to traumatic brain injury survivors and individuals with intellectual disabilities at the location in which they reside. This service takes place in the home, whether they live independently or with family members. The goal of community programs is to develop life management skills as well as community integration. The supports provided are…
$4,695,416 spentof which $105,230 as grants$5,217,730 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,763,728.
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 $42M to $49M (+15%).
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: 2021 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Honorable Paul Pontieri
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income fell $98k → $78k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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: $12M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Feinstein Health Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION 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
HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 63% · 2019 71% · 2020 59% · 2021 80% · 2022 54% · 2023 45% — 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
38% of HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
56% of HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION 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 $362k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 21 related entities
- Independent Group Home Living Program Inc · exempt
- Independent Group Home Living Foundation · exempt
- Kjr Holding Inc · exempt
- Association for Technology Dependent Children Inc · exempt
- Angela's House Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC?
- HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,344 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($385,150). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $829,344 in grants to HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $385,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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