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National Ability Center
The NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER (the center) empowers individuals with disabilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $243,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $643,330 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $399,984 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROTHERS KEEPERS | $41,501 |
| CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY SERVICES | $32,817 |
| CHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILDREN | $31,399 |
| REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF THE CAPE AND ISLANDS CORP | $26,508 |
| UTAH SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND | $24,990 |
| PROJECT OVERWATCH | $16,115 |
| PARENTS EMPOWERING ABLE KIDS (PEAK) | $14,928 |
| STAND4KIND | $12,166 |
| NEW FOCUS ACADEMY | $10,295 |
| CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 | $7,383 |
| IHC HEALTH SERVICES INC | $7,108 |
| HEROES HAVEN (DAS HOOAH) | $7,073 |
| WEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY | $6,037 |
| NK MEDICAL GROUP | $5,026 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Freedom Revived is here to bring a proactive approach to serving those who serve us. We provide support and encouragement through a variety of services that revitalize mind, body, and spirit to our Frontline.
To improve the lives of our nations warriors (veterans, first responders, peace officers, and their families) by helping them build a new mission and purpose in life, support their recovery and reintegration, and empower them to accomplish…
Wounded War Heroes was founded to show our appreciation to the men and women who have been wounded or injured as a result of serving our country, by providing them therapeutic outdoor experiences upon their return home from fighting for…
The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.
Military mobility specializes in off-road expeditions and resiliency training for veterans in need, to reduce the veteran suicide rate. our mission is to put clients in a team environment which fosters camaraderie, trust, and inspires the…
Wild Warrior Adventure works to prevents suicide, minimize PTSD among veterans and optimize veterans wellness through outdoor retreats and activities.
Our mission is to inspire and empower individuals with physical or traumatic impairments by providing an all-inclusive functional fitness training program and fostering a sense of community for adaptive athletes.
Our mission is to inspire, motivate and strengthen warriors by providing various recreational activities in a safe and relaxing environment.
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…
adaptive sports for disabled veterans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wasatch Adaptive Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daring Sisters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Ability Center funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.