North Carolina · Public charity
The Ability Experience
THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE uses shared experiences to support people with disabilities and develop the men of pi kappa phi into servant leaders. We have partnered with than 264 camps and organizations that serve people with disabilities. The primary activities of the organization include volunteering on campus communities, building…
- $461k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $277k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Ability Experience funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $277k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $135k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $88k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $118k | 61% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $149k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $160k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $129k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Best Buddies International Inc | $50,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Assoc for Maximum Potential ( | $47,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Camp Twin Lakes Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Easter Seals Washington | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Civitan Foundation Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Why Not Now Inc | $22,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Camp Summit Inc | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Life Has No Boundaries Co | $21,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Rochester Rotary Charitable Trusts Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($348k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ability Experience supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christopher Reeve Foundation · Easter Seals Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
About The Ability Experience
- How much does The Ability Experience give?
- The Ability Experience reported 32 itemized grants totaling $277,037, out of $461,141 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Ability Experience fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (36%), Health (28%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Ability Experience's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Christian University ($65k), Best Buddies International Inc ($51k), Children's Assoc for Maximum Potential ( ($47k).
- Does The Ability Experience fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ability Experience?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christopher Reeve Foundation, Easter Seals Inc, Edward Jones Foundation.
- Where is The Ability Experience based?
- The Ability Experience is based in NC.
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