New York · Nonprofit
THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 172 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,441,221 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 172
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $45M
What The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc does
Mission
The door's mission is to empower young people (ages 12-24) to reach their potential by providing comprehensive youth development services in a diverse and caring environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Career and education department - the door is a national leader in youth workforce development. Each year more than 3,500 young people across nyc participate in our wide range of career and education programs. We offer paid internships as well as bridge and training programs in six different industries, and provide job placement and retention support. We also offer educational opportunities, beginning with literacy classes and including high school equivalency classes, college preparation, and support with college enrollment and persistence. Career coaches work closely with participants to ensure an individualized, customized approach for all.
$9,462,707 spent34% of program spendingAdolescent health center (ahc) (federally qualified health center) the door is new york city's only adolescent health center that's embedded in a youth development organization. We offer comprehensive, confidential health services that include primary, reproductive and behavioral health care, as well as dental, vision dermatology, and a nutrition education program.
$6,792,289 spent$1,851,205 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe door's legal services center provides cutting edge advocacy to young people ages 12 to 24. Established in 1992 to address the lack of free legal assistance for youth in new york city, the center provides a broad range of counsel and advocacy services to young people, including outreach to the runaway and homeless youth population. In partnership with breaking ground and phipps houses, the door runs two supportive housing programs in the lower east side at the lee and east 9th stet, which collectively offers 99 beds. A wide variety of arts programming is also available.
$6,465,997 spent23% of program spendingMental Health and Personal Development
$4,037,990 spent15% of program spendingNutrition
$1,032,738 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,791,721.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $65M to $52M (−20%).
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 64% · 2018 47% · 2019 53% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 45% · 2023 60% · 2024 48% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Kelsey Louie
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $3.8M → $7.4M.
27 of 172 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 172 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
THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
61% 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 THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 31% · 2020 14% · 2021 53% · 2022 17% · 2023 10% — 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
52% of THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
72% of THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES 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. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Government funding THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $938k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$938k
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 THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 2 related entities
- Broome Street Academy Charter High School · exempt
- 121 Sixth Avenue Condominium · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC?
- THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 172 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,441,221 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 172 organizations giving $59,441,221 in grants to THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES 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.
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 172 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