New York · Nonprofit
ABILITIES INC
ABILITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,554 to it, the largest being PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ($183,878). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $523k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Abilities Inc does
Mission
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and adults with disabilities and to employers, schools and colleges and other rehabilitation programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vocational Programs - Abilities Inc provides, Training, Placement and Job Coaching services. Training gets participants ready for the corporate world by preparing for a variety of positions in a modern office setting. Placement specialists assist in exploring job opportunities in many industries. They help participants set employment goals, develop a resume, embark on a job search, complete job applications and improve interviewing skills. Job Coaching provides support at the work site to help participants fully learn their jobs, understand their responsibilities and be successful at work.
$2,535,264 spent$602,867 earned by the program37% of program spendingTransitional Services - assist High School students with disabilities to achieve positive transition outcomes of community integration within the adult world. Students receive counseling services that focus specifically on career development, employment preparation, independence and integration in the work place and community. Abilities PROSPER program focuses on improving attendance and self-esteem with at-risk high school juniors and seniors. Through cooperative learning and character development via public speaking exercises and individual/team projects, the program encourages students to learn to work independently and collectively to explore real world obstacles and challenges. Corporate partners host vocational tours in their business environments and inform students of job requirements and responsibilities. Our new Inclusive Higher Education (IHE) programs open the doors of college life to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities by offering meaningful access to academics, campus activities, career development, and independent living skills.
$2,929,892 spent$3,655,946 earned by the program42% of program spendingCommunity Integration Programs - include Day Habilitation services, respite and recreation programs and benefits counseling for people with disabilities, as well as their families. The Group Day Habilitation program provides assistance with acquisition, retention or improvement of self-help, socialization and adaptive skills. The Town of North Hempstead Saturday and Summer respite and recreation programs give participants the opportunity to socialize with their peers and explore their communities through a range of social, educational and recreational activities.
$1,433,071 spent$1,989,699 earned by the program21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,898,227.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+21%).
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: 2021 21% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 9% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Candida Cucharo
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $25k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Viscardi Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ABILITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ABILITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ABILITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 ABILITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 97% · 2019 79% · 2020 54% · 2021 67% · 2022 62% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of ABILITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
ABILITIES INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding ABILITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $2.3M federal, $18k state.
- Social Security Administration$2.3M
- OR$16k
- NJ$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 ABILITIES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Viscardi Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILITIES INC?
- ABILITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,554 to it, the largest being PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ($183,878). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $522,554 in grants to ABILITIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITIES INC?
- PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $183,878 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing