California · Nonprofit
ABILITYPATH
ABILITYPATH (California) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,761,573 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,646,775). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Abilitypath does
Mission
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preschool - a model of inclusion where children with and without special needs learn and prepare for kindergarten together using a play-based curriculum. Approximately 340 enrolled.
$2,810,936 spent$3,945,068 earned by the program15% of program spendingChildren's services including family support services - free developmental screenings and care coordination to ensure the early identification of and access to services for children with special needs and the professionals who serve them and a full range of speech, occupational and physical therapy, as well as developmental classes that help children ages 0 to 15 meet milestones and establish a strong foundation for future learning and independence. Approximately 2,120 children and parents served.
$4,617,852 spent$2,667,804 earned by the program25% of program spendingAdult services - programs offering independent living and vocational training classes, as well as experiential learning for adults with special needs and disabilities. Approximately 820 individuals are served.
$9,436,770 spent$6,810,219 earned by the program50% of program spendingEmployment training, youth and teen social recreation program - employment services: training, job placements, and on-the-job coaching in supported and competitive work environments. Youth and teen social recreation program: helping youth and young adults learn social, wellness, technical and independent living skills through a variety of recreational classes.
$1,953,705 spent$1,888,349 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,819,263.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $32M (+90%).
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 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2021 6% · 2022 17% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of ABILITYPATH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Bryan Neider
CEO
Board chair
Steve Eskenazi
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $204k → $2.3M.
17 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $10M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Via Rehabilitation Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ABILITYPATH raised.
From the IRS filings of ABILITYPATH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
ABILITYPATH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 ABILITYPATH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 45% · 2019 43% · 2020 29% · 2021 21% · 2022 23% · 2023 61% — 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
48% of ABILITYPATH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of ABILITYPATH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.6M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ABILITYPATH has grown faster than half of the 290 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 290 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ABILITYPATH
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 2 related entities
- Abilitypath Housing · exempt
- Via Rehabilitation Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILITYPATH: 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 ABILITYPATH?
- ABILITYPATH (California) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,761,573 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,646,775). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABILITYPATH have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $7,761,573 in grants to ABILITYPATH, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILITYPATH?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,646,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILITYPATH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 76 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