· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $135,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $449,105 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $314,105 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KINDER FROGS | $50,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES OF ARIZONA | $18,000 |
| EAST ALABAMA EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OUTDOOR LAB | $7,500 |
| AKRON ROTARY CAMP | $7,500 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $7,500 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $6,500 |
| DOWN HOME RANCH | $6,500 |
| HOPE HOLLOW MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| CAMP STAND BY ME | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +47%
- CACHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (4× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
- CTCAMP TWIN LAKES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CECAMP EASTER SEALS UCPone grant, 2017 · $13k
- TKTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +182%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To offer experiences that model and nurture a culture of inclusion, grace and joy, through which people with and without disabilities can transcend barriers and value both their own gifts and the talents of others.
The mission of camp high hopes is to provide fun, safe, and adaptive recreational experiences for children, teens, and adults with disabilities, special needs, and chronic illnesses.
Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.
To provide a fun, safe environment where campers have the opportunity to increase skills and independence in a setting otherwise not available to them.
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
Camp Dream Foundation Inc. serves children and young adults with moderate to severe physical and developmental disabilities by offering traditional Camp, recreational and eductional activities.
Conduct a highly therapeutic camp for nine weeks during the summer for emotionally, behaviorally and learning disabled children.
Therapeutic horseback riding programs for individuals with physical, mental and/or emotional needs.
Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.
Summer and winter programs for individuals with disabilities
Provide therapeutic rehabilitation and professional nursing services to children with special needs.
The organization provides an outdoor environment with accessibility and nature's healing for veterans and first responders with disabilities, their families and gold star families. the organization promotes and fosters awareness of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established 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.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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.
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Washington ↗
- Who funds CIVITAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds WHY NOT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERLAND CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ServiceSource Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CAMP FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE HAS NO BOUNDARIES CO ↗
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: 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
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 The Ability Experience 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.
- Easter Seals Connecticut Inc — 43% of income from government
- Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp — 18% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Jersey Camp Jaycee Inc — 0% of income from government
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.