New York · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY
OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,408 to it, the largest being STEVEN AND MARCY SCHAEFFER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($176,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $915k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $596k
What Opportunities Alternatives and Resources of Tompkins County does
Mission
To provide support, assistance, counseling, and advocacy for inmates of the tompkins county jail and for individuals in tompkins county recently released from jail.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provided assistance and advocacy for inmates within tompkins county and those residents recently released from prison.
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$86,494 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $803,564.
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 2019 to 2020, from $445k to $647k (+45%).
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 55% · 2018 79% · 2019 80% · 2020 77% · 2021 70% · 2022 80% · 2023 61% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dave Sanders
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $57k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 66% · 2019 55% · 2020 50% · 2021 40% · 2022 41% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY'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. $117k 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
OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $117k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$117k
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 OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY
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
77% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY: 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 OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY?
- OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,408 to it, the largest being STEVEN AND MARCY SCHAEFFER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($176,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $438,408 in grants to OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY?
- STEVEN AND MARCY SCHAEFFER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $176,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY 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 5 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