New York · Nonprofit
HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY
HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,791 to it, the largest being PATRICK P LEE FOUNDATION ($301,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Housing Options Made Easy does
Mission
We support people with mental health concerns to improve wellness and live independently with dignity, in the community of their choice, through peer-driven services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supported housing programs provides financial rental assistance and support services, in chautauqua, cattaraugus, monroe, allegany, and niagara counties, to individuals diagnosed with mental illness, for the purpose of maintaining their independence in the community of their choice.
$2,646,474 spentof which $1,796,912 as grants$2,076,233 earned by the program31% of program spendingPeer-run crisis residences are short-term, community-based programs designed to support individuals experiencing mental health crises. These programs emphasize mutual support, autonomy, and recovery; providing a safe alternative to hospitalization, focusing on empowerment and connection to resources.
$2,254,361 spent27% of program spendingPeer service programs provide assistance to individuals diagnosed with mental illness by providing resources and support to enhance daily living skills such as budgeting, shopping, and navigating a new community, and skills to address individual access to and engagement in individualized mental health treatment services. Services and support that assist individuals in meeting self-identified needs, thus accessing opportunities that lead to the most independent lifestyles of their choosing.
$2,027,919 spent24% of program spendingRespite center direct expenses for the new center and workforce grants
$1,574,046 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,502,800.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.2M to $10M (+98%).
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 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 88% · 2020 90% · 2021 86% · 2022 81% · 2023 70% · 2024 71% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jennifer Levesque
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $229k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY’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
HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 38% · 2022 53% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% 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
100% of HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY'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. $145k 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
HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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 HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY: 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 HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY?
- HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,144,791 to it, the largest being PATRICK P LEE FOUNDATION ($301,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,144,791 in grants to HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY?
- PATRICK P LEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $301,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING OPTIONS MADE EASY 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 12 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