Connecticut · Nonprofit
ABILIS INC
ABILIS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,897,694 to it, the largest being STEVEN & ALEXANDRA COHEN FOUNDATION INC ($2,620,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Abilis Inc does
Mission
Abilis provides people with developmental disabilities and their families in lower fairfield county with support and advocacy for building able lives and strong communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services - to provide supports necessary for individuals with developmental disabilities to live as independently as possible in environments that promote self sufficiency. Abilis offers a wide range of residential options, which include intermediate care facilities, community living arrangements, continuous residential supports and supported living arrangements. The menu of residential choices allows abilis to tailor supports to the needs of each adult served. These group homes, as well as supervised apartment living and home sharing, provide a family atmosphere where residents are trained with the necessary skills to maximize their capabilities for self-sufficiency.
$22,356,757 spent$25,105,340 earned by the program64% of program spendingEmployment, businesses and transtion services - to provide support for individuals with developmental disabilities in developing employment skills, opportunities, and career exploration. This program is specifically designed to help people with disabilities transition from high school into adulthood (life skills program) and eventually into their senior years. Life skills participants have individualized plans that include vocational, social, recreational and adaptive living goals and objectives. A wide range of daily activities help adults who age out of the workforce to maintain meaningful community and social connections. In an effort to assist individuals to secure community based jobs, abilis runs multiple businesses designed to help people cultivate their skills and participate in meaningful employment within abilis. The goal is to find the right business fit to allow individuals to learn and develop skills for the competitive work environment.
$10,379,996 spent$10,047,832 earned by the program30% of program spendingTherapeutic services - provides education and support to children with developmental disabilities and their families.these services bring together home experts who work together to create a cohesive approach to personalized therapeutic care. These therapies, housed in the therapy center in stamford, connecticut, are administered using best practices and are available at abilis or in other environments.
$1,915,862 spent$1,877,066 earned by the program6% of program spendingActivities - abilis offers a range of community-based activities that provide social and recreational opportunities for people of all ages with disabilities. The goal is to allow individuals to build upon their interests and skills in a supportive environment. That nurtures camaraderie and friendship.
$71,278 spent$108,317 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,723,893.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $30M to $39M (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of ABILIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Amy Montimurro
Pres/CEO
Board chair
Mitchell Cohen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $581k → $942k.
18 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ABILIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ABILIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ABILIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of ABILIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of ABILIS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ABILIS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ABILIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $191.3M on record.
- Board & Care Of Clients$121.6M
- Client Services-General$69.5M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$149k
- Client Subsidies$4k
- Other Program Expenses$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ABILIS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILIS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILIS INC?
- ABILIS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,897,694 to it, the largest being STEVEN & ALEXANDRA COHEN FOUNDATION INC ($2,620,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $8,897,694 in grants to ABILIS INC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILIS INC?
- STEVEN & ALEXANDRA COHEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILIS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 113 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing