Center for Community Alternatives

Analysis

Center for Community Alternatives is a registered charity in United States, based in Syracuse, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Center for Community Alternatives reported income of $18.9m and spending of $18.2m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $9.9m to $18.9m (+92%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Center for Community Alternatives sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Young Mens Christian Association of the Inland Northwest ($18.9m), John Sherman & Alvina Reckman Myers Foundation for Legal Education ($18.9m) and Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care Inc ($18.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 1.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $361k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8.6m. At year end it held assets of $14.6m against liabilities of $10.4m, net assets of $4.2m. It reported 194 employees.