New York · Nonprofit
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,171,535 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($6,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Vocational Instruction Project Community Services Inc does
Mission
Vip community services offers comprehensive and integrated medical, mental health and substance use services, housing, and wraparound services that promote positive outcomes for the people served, their families, and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As a multi-service community organization, vip community services operates two residential treatment programs with a total of 120 beds for men and women with substance use disorder. Vip also operates shelters for single men, women, and children experiencing homelessness and 792 units of supportive and affordable housing, facilitating a transition to independent living. Vip community services connects all clients in residential treatment, shelter and transitional housing to individualized sud and mental health treatments, health care, and vocational services. Overall, vip community services creates positive outcomes for hundreds of women and men annually in supportive/affordable and residential housing programs. Additional accomplishments are as follows: - stabilized and maintained a census above the established requirement - reduced staff turnover - patient satisfaction exceeding 90% - consistent clinical documentation/compliance (documentation consistent with established timeframes) - reduced significant incidents at the residences - incorporated positive activities into our programming (super bowl party, monthly birthday parties for patients) - timely and accurate cds/…
$52,353,739 spent59% of program spendingVip community services operates one of the largest licensed, medically supervised opioid treatment programs (otp) in new york state and the state's first mobile medication unit. With its innovative, client-centered approach, vip has contributed to de-stigmatizing methadone treatment, and integrated medication assisted treatment into a clinical pathway to self-directed medication supported recovery. Vip provides safe, efficacious medication management and provides a rich array of group and individual counseling. The opioid treatment program is part of vip's continuum of care and fully integrates clients into all other treatment modalities.otp has a 3-year carf accreditation. We integrated mental health and substance use services through our certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc). Established school based integrated care.
$23,808,150 spentof which $206,298 as grants$24,044,072 earned by the program27% of program spendingVip community services offers a fully integrated primary care services which includes mental health, specialty and medical services. Acute and chronic disease management are supported by on-site care coordination and case management. Services are provided in several languages by a multi-lingual and culturally competent staff. Vip is a federal tort claims act (ftca) deemed facility.specialties include pediatrics, ophthalmology, women's health, hiv care and behavioral health treatment. Vip is proud to report successful treatment outcomes in the hepatitis c, diabetes, and hypertension management. Our federally qualify health center has obtained numerous accolades including designation as a patient centered medical home (ncqa level 3 recognition) and behavioral health medical home. Hrsa awards including health care quality, patient access, advancing health it, national quality leader for diabetes, heart and behavioral health establishment of ged program in spanish and english telehealth services for primary care and behavioral health services.the following training classes have been added to the vocational training program. - security classes with license - f80 with certificate - osha…
$6,033,491 spent7% of program spendingOther programs.
$7,294,084 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $89,489,464.
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 2023 to 2024, from $105M to $158M (+50%).
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 44% · 2018 32% · 2019 20% · 2020 37% · 2021 50% · 2022 60% · 2023 75% · 2024 75% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Debbian Fletcher-Blake
President/CEO
Board chair
William Bifulco
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $38k → $6.1M.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 28 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
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 51% · 2023 98% — 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
15% of VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
85% of VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES 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. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$27.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.4M
- Department of Homeland Security$2.2M
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 VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
85% 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 22 related entities
- 1807 Clinton Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 1870 Crotona Avenue Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- 445 Vip Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- Abraham Apartments Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- Casa & Clinton Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,171,535 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($6,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $7,171,535 in grants to VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 28 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