Connecticut · Nonprofit
OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC
OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $254 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($254). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $254
- Net assets
- $-5378
What Options Unlimited Inc does
Mission
Options unlimited, inc. Is committed to providing residential and day services that are individualized, integrated, community-based, and the least restrictive possible. These factors are key considerations in helping persons with disabilities reach new heights of meaning and happiness in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Options unlimited, inc. Operates community based residential alternatives for people who are developmentally disabled with the intended goal of assisting these individuals in becoming increasingly self-sufficient.
$5,534,735 spent$637,198 earned by the program91% of program spendingOptions unlimited, inc. Provides a day program for developmentally disabled persons.
$104,150 spent2% of program spendingSupported living programs: options unlimited, inc. Provides continuous residential support for developmentally disabled persons.
$461,789 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,100,674.
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 $2.4M to $3.1M (+30%).
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 87% · 2018 88% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 90% · 2022 89% · 2023 90% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Lynn Cinciva
CEO
Board chair
Kyle Murry
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $78.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 UNLIMITED 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPTIONS UNLIMITED 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 UNLIMITED INC's revenue grew 49% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45.5M on record.
- Board & Care Of Clients$40.8M
- Client Services-General$4.8M
- Client Subsidies$925
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 UNLIMITED 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% 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 OPTIONS UNLIMITED 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 OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC?
- OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $254 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($254). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $254 in grants to OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPTIONS UNLIMITED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 1 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