Maryland · Nonprofit
ABILITIES NETWORK INC
ABILITIES NETWORK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,998,213 to it, the largest being MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ($5,125,601). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Abilities Network Inc does
Mission
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community and employment partners: community and employment partners' services are designed to provide individual support to adults with disabilities to live and work in their maryland communities as valued and contributing citizens. Providing life skills through mentoring and training, 470 people are currently supported through team-developed, person-centered plans to identify goals to locate, maintain and grow independence in their community based jobs, home and/or systems of resources to ensure health, safety and happiness.
$6,021,616 spent$6,292,188 earned by the program58% of program spendingProject act: project all children together works with child care programs, out of school time programs and communities to provide training, coaching, and mentoring to improve the quality of care and support the inclusion of all children in these programs. Project act receives funding through grants from the maryland state department of education, maryland family network, and various other private and public funders. As the child resource center of baltimore, harford and cecil counties, childcare providers and programs can receive technical assistance and training in core of knowledge areas that will assist with keeping their credentials current to meet childcare licensing requirements and learn how to fully include children with disabilities in childcare settings. (continued on schedule o )knowledge areas include: professionalism, child development, health, safety, and nutrition, special needs, and community. Under these categories, project act develops and delivers training modules to meet the needs of childcare professionals and teachers. Trainings are provided at project act's site and on-site at child care program locations. As a result of these trainings, childcare…
$2,765,960 spent$195,238 earned by the program27% of program spendingHealthy families: healthy families baltimore county (hfbc) is part of a national effort to support new parents with helping their children have a healthy start in life. Services are available to families of children prenatally through age five. Initial contact must occur either prenatally or within two weeks of the baby's birth. Hfbc provides assessments, information and referral services, intensive home visitation, parent education, crisis intervention, advocacy, child development assessment, and parent group meeting to participating families.
$1,037,348 spent10% of program spendingSenior services: senior services provides community education on a variety of topics related to seniors, their health and housing issues. Senior speaker series areheld through the year in the abilities network training institute and also presented in the community at large. All speakers and trainings are open to the public andare free of charge. We also provided multiple seminars to the public. Topics include: "right-sizing and moving made easy," "get organized", "shred, file or pile: what to do with all this paper?" these presentation are offered at local senior centers, community organizations and senior living communities. Often we also joinforces with other business owners in the aging field to create panel discussions for the public.move management services is a fee or service program which includes one-on-one support to help people navigate through the complicated process of relocationand downsizing. Move management services will be offered to seniors and people with disabilities. For many people, relocation can be one of the most stressfulevents in their lifetime. Move management services are customized to assist every step of the way with the understanding that very…
$565,135 spent$529,455 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,390,059.
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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $8.4M (−35%).
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: 2017 38% · 2018 37% · 2019 31% · 2020 24% · 2021 0% · 2022 20% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of ABILITIES NETWORK 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. 2 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
Lynette Elliott
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $483k → $1.2M.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 ABILITIES NETWORK 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 NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 62% · 2021 77% · 2022 69% · 2023 97% — 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
36% of ABILITIES NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
100% of ABILITIES NETWORK INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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.
Against its field
ABILITIES NETWORK 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 ABILITIES NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.9M on record.
- Grant$4.9M
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 NETWORK 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILITIES NETWORK INC?
- ABILITIES NETWORK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,998,213 to it, the largest being MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ($5,125,601). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILITIES NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $5,998,213 in grants to ABILITIES NETWORK INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITIES NETWORK INC?
- MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,125,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITIES NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 19 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