Arkansas · Nonprofit
ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC
ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,384 to it, the largest being SESSIONS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Fort Smith Area Incshared funders
- Sourceamericaportfolio match
- Maryland Works Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 2% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $7k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH 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 UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 91% · 2022 97% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Fort Smith Area Incshared fundersAR · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Sourceamericaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prince George's Provider Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Resource Connections Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kovar Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helpers Community Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inclusa Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank Nigro Columbian Foundation Supporting People With Intellectual Disabiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Developmental Pathways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- General Services Administration$30k
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 UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC?
- ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,384 to it, the largest being SESSIONS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,384 in grants to ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC?
- SESSIONS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing