Missouri · Nonprofit
ABILITY KC
ABILITY KC (Missouri) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,714,873 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($1,294,504). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Ability Kc does
Mission
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Since 1947, Ability Kc has been driven by the unwavering belief that people with the most complex disabilities should have the support they need to fully participate in their communities. In 2023 we celebrated 76 years of unmatched expertise, an individualized approach to rehabilitation, and the connected continuum of care that makes Ability Kc a destination for care where people can build brighter futures. Our mission has been strong in kansas city at every juncture of life: from a child's kindergarten readiness to an individual returning to high school or work, or to building and achieving a plan of living independently in their home and community. Ability Kc is the longest-standing comprehensive outpatient medical rehabilitation facility in kansas city and has been internationally accredited through the commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) for over 50 years. Through our partnership with carf international, we are recognized as a value-based care leader. Over the past seven decades, Ability Kc has risen to the challenges of the rapidly changing rehabilitation landscape, providing a model of care, culture and services that is a critical bridge for…
$9,843,499 spentof which $47,394 as grants$11,074,672 earned by the program67% of program spendingAbility Kc is built on a strong founding legacy that continues to inspire the work done each day for the children we serve. In 1947, mary shaw branton, jeanette luhnow and jane dick founded the therapeutic preschool for children with special needs. Now, 76 years later, we continue to help children achieve their goals and reach key milestones through the great work of our teachers and therapists at Ability Kc's mary shaw branton therapeutic preschool. Nationally accredited by the national association for the education of young children (naeyc), and state licensed, our early education therapeutic preschool classrooms offer a caring, inclusive environment that provide children ages 1 to 5 years old with a wide range of educational, medical, and therapeutic services. By delivering therapeutic services within an age-appropriate and natural educational environment, our highly experienced team can help young children of all abilities maximize their potential. Ability Kc's inclusive classrooms pair children living with disabilities together with typically developing peers, with a ratio of 1:4 teachers to students to support every level of need. Additionally, therapists join the classroom…
$2,085,163 spent$1,355,160 earned by the program14% of program spendingAbility Kc provides a unique range of vocational services to help individuals experiencing disability or recovering from an illness or injury realize their employment and independence goals. From job training and placement to use of assistive technology for critical work tasks, through driving services and more, we collaborate with each patient and our community partners to help individuals with disabilities thrive in the community and in the workplace. Ability Kc offers disability employment services in kansas city and across the region for individuals dealing with barriers to employment. Working closely with the missouri and kansas vocational rehabilitation offices, this carf-accredited service is a resource for job seekers with disabilities looking for assistance with vocational planning, placement and supports. For those who have had a traumatic brain injury (tbi), Ability Kc offers specialized employment services delivered by a specially trained team of experts in the areas of brain injury, neuroscience, assistive technology, and more, to meet the specific needs of individuals seeking employment after a tbi. Our passion and goal are to ensure the employee has a successful…
$2,692,679 spent$1,772,902 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,621,341.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $17M to $14M (−19%).
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 17% · 2021 12% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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 Castillo
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $465k → $470k.
7 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ABILITY KC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
ABILITY KC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 ABILITY KC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 67% · 2019 40% · 2020 55% · 2021 46% · 2022 21% · 2023 53% — 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
48% of ABILITY KC'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
66% of ABILITY KC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like ABILITY KC
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
- Ability Kc Industries · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILITY KC: 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 ABILITY KC?
- ABILITY KC (Missouri) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,714,873 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($1,294,504). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILITY KC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $4,714,873 in grants to ABILITY KC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITY KC?
- United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,294,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITY KC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 60 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