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· Public charity
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER
To provide adaptive recreation and development for individuals with disabilities.
$643k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants
5
Communities
$42k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
empower
2020
excellencediseasediagnosischildchildren rareempowerempowering
2021
focusdiseasediagnosischildchildren rare
2022
focusdiseasediagnosischildbecomechildren rare
2023
createlearnfocusrespondersdiseasediagnosischild
2024
diabetesinjuryaffectedfullshepherd center'sreachpotential
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2023 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
$14,928
Median grant
5
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 46% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Adaptive Surfers Academy
Surf competition training for Paralympic athletes
Recreation & Sports
2
Special Troopers Adaptive Riding School
Special troopers adaptive riding school is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the well being of individuals with physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or social challenges through therapeutic horseback riding, canine…
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3
Bravehearts Therapeutic Riding and
Bravehearts brings hope, joy and unlimited possibilities through the healing power of the horse.
Human Services
4
Heroes Equine Assisted Riding Therapy
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5
Renown Health
To establish, equip and maintain one or more general acute care hospitals and medical centers.
Health
6
Usa Triathlon of Colorado
The mission of USA Triathlon of Colorado (USAT) is to grow, inspire, and support the triathlon community.
Recreation & Sports
7
Children's Hospital Colorado
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Health
8
Emanate Health
To provide support to two acute-care hospitals, a hospice, and a home health agency which, in turn, provide inpatient and outpatient clinical services.
Health
9
Colorado West Healthcare System
Improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Health
10
Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch Co
Our mission is to inspire, motivate and strengthen warriors by providing various recreational activities in a safe and relaxing environment.
Public Benefit
11
Powerability
Athletic training and education
Human Services
12
Intermountain Healthcare
Provide strategic and fiduciary leadership for philanthropic endeavors of ihc health services, inc.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is United States Olympic and Paralympic. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,520
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.
04the grantee network
24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$96,203Health$71,324Philanthropy$41,501Education$18,203Membership Benefit$16,115
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.
United Way WorldwideVA8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JACKS BROTHERS KEEPERS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 455620556 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on JACKS BROTHERS KEEPERS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to National Ability Center?
Find your warmest path to National Ability Center through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines