New York · Nonprofit
OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC
OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,196 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($256,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $945k
- Net assets
- $27M
What Options for Community Living Inc does
Mission
Options for community living, inc. Is dedicated to supporting all individuals and families in developing their fullest potential for independent living. The organization provides services that prepare participants for the demands and responsibilities of community life while promoting housing permanency, health, safety, and overall well-being. We envision an inclusive and sustainable community where access to high-quality healthcare and safe affordable housing is available to all.options operates with a commitment to integrity, openness, accountability, respect for the individual, and the highest quality of care. As a multifaceted agency, options delivers a broad range of services to adults with serious mental illness, individuals and families living with hiv/aids, and those affected by other chronic medical conditions.the organization's primary sources of funding are contracts and service fees from the new york state office of mental health and medicaid.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health supportive housing this program provides affordable, community-based supportive housing for adults recovering from serious mental illness at 118 scattered sites across nassau and suffolk counties. Case managers conduct regular visits to promote health, wellness, stability, and independent living. The program has the capacity to serve 375 adults and 4 families.
$8,767,581 spent$775,625 earned by the program33% of program spendingMental health licensed programs operating under the oversight of the new york state office of mental health, options provides transitional housing and rehabilitative services to individuals recovering from serious mental illness. The program serves up to 128 adults across a network of five licensed group homes, 20 scattered-site licensed apartment treatment units, and one five-unit licensed apartment treatment building.
$8,066,780 spent$8,854,717 earned by the program31% of program spendingAtc residential services: this program provides supportive housing and related services to individuals living with hiv/aids or other disabilities. Options operates 68 units of long-term supportive housing for formerly homeless or inappropriately housed individuals and families. Tenants pay an affordable rent based on their income.supportive services are designed to ensure access to medical care, promote safety and housing stability, and support overall well-being. Supportive housing is widely recognized as one of the most effective and cost-efficient strategies to end homelessness among vulnerable populations.
$4,124,558 spent$942,709 earned by the program16% of program spendingAtc ("access to care") - care coordination. Care management services for medicaid eligible adults and children with complex medical, behavioral, and long term care needs. An options' "care coordinator" oversees and provides access to all of the services an individual needs to stay healthy, and avoid emergency room visits and hospitalization. The atc care coordination program assists more than 1,100 adults and children annually.
$3,733,145 spent$3,106,878 earned by the program14% of program spendingMainstream rent vouchers
$1,553,319 spent6% of program spendingThrift shop
$49,643 spent$37,752 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,295,026.
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 $41M to $39M (−5%).
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 3% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% · 2024 19% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC’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. 7 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
Yolanda Robano-Gross Lmsw Mha
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $35k → $186k.
2 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING 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
OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 50% · 2019 88% · 2020 33% · 2021 77% · 2022 77% · 2023 81% — 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
31% of OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
55% of OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC'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. $17k 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
OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$10.4M
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 OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING 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
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
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- 206 Smiths Options LLC · disregarded
- Ocl Properties Inc · exempt
- Ocl Properties II Inc · exempt
- Ocl Properties III East Inc · exempt
- Ocl Properties III West Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC?
- OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,196 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($256,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $945,196 in grants to OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $256,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing