Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

CONSUMER DIRECTED CHOICES

EIN 16-1516618 ALBANY, NY

Browse the largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2024
$90,509,538
Expenses 2024
$84,169,206

Program services were 97.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P82
Classification
1000
Street
7 WASHINGTON SQ

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AS THE PREMIER PROVIDER OF CONSUMER-DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE WE EMPOWER INDEPENDENCE AND ADVOCATE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, SENIORS, AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AS THE PREMIER PROVIDER OF CONSUMER-DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE, WE EMPOWER INDEPENDENCE AND ADVOCATE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, SENIORS, AND THEIR FAMILIES.

  • IN FULFILLMENT OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER VARIOUS CONSUMER DIRECTED PROGRAMS, CDCHOICES SERVES AS A FISCAL INTERMEDIARY FOR CONSUMERS/DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVES. AMONG ITS FISCAL INTERMEDIARY SERVICES IS TO PROVIDE PAYROLL AND BENEFITS SERVICES FOR 3,426 EMPLOYEES OF CONSUMERS/DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVES. AS SUCH, OF THE REPORTED EMPLOYEES IN PART I, LINE 5, ONLY 60 ARE EMPLOYEES OF CONSUMER DIRECTED CHOICES. THE REMAINING INDIVIDUALS REPORTED ARE THOSE FOR WHOM CDCHOICES PROVIDES PAYROLL SERVICES ON BEHALF OF CONSUMERS/DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVES.

    Expenses $81,929,181 · Grants $100,000 · Revenue $89,714,816

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Thomas Scott Cehowski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eileen Scanlan

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Grimes

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Giuliano

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ryan K Micklus

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tammy Rehm

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas McGarry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theresa Terry Waitt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kim Gander

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ariel Ruiz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jane-Marie Schaeffer Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher Graber

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $706,352
    From this org
    $457,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $248,546
    Hours/week
    38

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $296,637
    Bonus
    $111,740
    Other
    $49,429
    Deferred
    $212,043
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,503
    Filer's total
    $706,352
  • Hongwei Zhang

    SENIOR VP OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $261,260
    From this org
    $199,541
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,719
    Hours/week
    38

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,126
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $18,415
    Deferred
    $49,038
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,681
    Filer's total
    $261,260
  • Brian Frasier

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $217,968
    From this org
    $181,630
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,338
    Hours/week
    38

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,071
    Bonus
    $14,170
    Other
    $19,389
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,338
    Filer's total
    $217,968
  • Andrew Delollo

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS

    Total calculated
    $180,644
    From this org
    $140,180
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,464
    Hours/week
    38

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,764
    Bonus
    $12,395
    Other
    $21
    Deferred
    $3,928
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,536
    Filer's total
    $180,644
  • Kristina Hunter

    DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $162,317
    From this org
    $125,583
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,734
    Hours/week
    38

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $117,109
    Bonus
    $8,453
    Other
    $21
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,734
    Filer's total
    $162,317
  • Melissa Groves

    COMPLIANCE MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $146,595
    From this org
    $103,258
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,337
    Hours/week
    38
  • Benjamin Gibson

    IT SUPERVISOR

    Total calculated
    $145,728
    From this org
    $101,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,036
    Hours/week
    38

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $90,509,538
    Expenses
    $84,169,206
    Contributions
    $27,742
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $69,896,669
    Expenses
    $66,171,574
    Contributions
    $53,837
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $54,936,298
    Expenses
    $52,390,940
    Contributions
    $187,033
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,559,698
    Expenses
    $44,197,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,497,712
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,559,698
    Expenses
    $44,197,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,497,712
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,611,095
    Expenses
    $39,682,054
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,965,430
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,198,947
    Expenses
    $35,365,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,349,574
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,182,242
    Expenses
    $31,888,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,103,362
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,356,799
    Expenses
    $29,382,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,910,868

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.