Connecticut · Nonprofit
ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC
ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,069 to it, the largest being ION BANK FOUNDATION INC ($39,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $546k
What Abilities Without Boundaries Inc does
Mission
To empower individuals with disabilities with the freedom and opportunity to succeed in social and vocational pursuits within a safe, nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mobil work crews-routine work performed by developmentally disabled adults for area businesses, such as janitorial services
$1,448,262 spent42% of program spendingWorkshop services and day support-vocational training, sheltered subcontract employment a nd community engagement for developmentally disabled adults through in-house workshops and social activities.
$1,931,015 spent$47,140 earned by the program56% of program spendingIndividual day vocational-placement of developmentally disabled adults who can perform routine jobs without full supervision of the agencys staff to the local area businesses.
$43,887 spent$14,919 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,423,164.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $1.8M (+77%).
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 91% · 2018 92% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% 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
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
Barnes Amanda
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $9k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 90% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
88% of ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 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. $69 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC has grown faster than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 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 ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC?
- ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,069 to it, the largest being ION BANK FOUNDATION INC ($39,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $86,069 in grants to ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC?
- ION BANK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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