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OPTION INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP

EIN 04-2780755 GT BARRINGTON, MA

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Revenue 2024
$1,054,337
Expenses 2024
$2,334,264

Program services were 60.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X99
Classification
1000
Street
490 MAIN ST STE 2C

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

ALL PROGRAMS & SERVICES HELP INDIVIDUALS FIND CLARITY,COMFORT & SELF EMPOWERMENT (AND A SENSE OF INNER FAITH)IN THE FACE OF DIFFICULT & TRAUMATIC PERSONAL AND/OR FAMILY CHALLENGES,ALSO WORKS WITH FAMILIES & THEIR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE.

  • ADULT GROUP PROGRAMS SEE SCHDULE ATTACHED

    Expenses $468,636 · Grants $16,422 · Revenue $333,959

  • SON-RISE PROGRAM ON LINE

    Expenses $456,882 · Grants $42,738 · Revenue $232,667

  • SON-RISE PROGRAM,GROUP PROGRAMS SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED

    Expenses $453,873 · Grants $9,300 · Revenue $66,000

  • SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED

    Expenses $38,757 · Grants $15,552 · Revenue $251,707

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Amanda Lousion

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $112,254
    From this org
    $112,254
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kelly Healey

    CFO/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $86,665
    From this org
    $86,665
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rachel Myers

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $41,651
    From this org
    $41,651
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Barry Neil Kaufman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $24,488
    From this org
    $24,488
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Susan M Kaufman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $24,488
    From this org
    $24,488
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dave Bambach

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Wendy Edwards

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kathy Kiepura

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Al Appelman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Bonnie Pheiffer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David Tully

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,054,337
    Expenses
    $2,334,264
    Contributions
    $238,834
    Grants paid
    $84,012
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,796,816
    Expenses
    $2,315,792
    Contributions
    $486,855
    Grants paid
    $144,486
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,943,289
    Expenses
    $2,169,897
    Contributions
    $640,699
    Grants paid
    $268,476

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
    $2,344,528
    Expenses
    $2,106,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,505,614

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,891,565
    Expenses
    $2,695,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,307,479

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 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.