South Carolina · Nonprofit
Able South Carolina Inc
Able South Carolina Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,524,370 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Able South Carolina Inc does
Mission
Able South Carolina (Able SC) is a disability-led organization with a mission to equip people with disabilities with tools to foster pride and direct their own lives; educate the community to challenge stereotypes and eliminate barriers; and advocate for access, independence, opportunity, and the rights of disabled people.Able SC serves people of all ages and all disabilities. During the year, we directly served more than 4,000 disabled people while working to improve communities and systems throughout South Carolina. With approximately one in three South Carolinians living with a disability, our work addresses barriers that affect a significant portion of our state.Able SC is at the forefront of advancing independence, accessibility, and opportunity for disabled people. Through direct services, peer support, education, community partnerships, and systems advocacy, we work to remove barriers and ensure disabled people have the opportunity to make their own choices and fully participate
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Able South Carolina (Able SC) is a disability-led organization with a mission to equip people with disabilities with tools to foster pride and direct their own lives; educate the community to challenge stereotypes and eliminate barriers; and advocate for access, independence, opportunity, and the rights of disabled people.Able SC serves people of all ages and all disabilities. During the year, we directly served more than 4,000 disabled people while working to improve communities and systems throughout South Carolina. With approximately one in three South Carolinians living with a disability, our work addresses barriers that affect a significant portion of our state.Able SC is at the forefront of advancing independence, accessibility, and opportunity for disabled people. Through direct services, peer support, education, community partnerships, and systems advocacy, we work to remove barriers and ensure disabled people have the opportunity to make their own choices and fully participate in their communities.
$4,957,104 spent$450,574 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,957,104.
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. 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 $1.5M to $4.4M (+188%).
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 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 88% · 2022 97% · 2023 87% · 2024 63% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Able South Carolina Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kimberly Tissot
President & CEO
Board chair
Keith Bogart
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $29k → $344k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Able South Carolina 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
Able South Carolina Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Able South Carolina Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 79% · 2019 57% · 2020 34% · 2021 30% · 2022 52% · 2023 66% — 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
63% of Able South Carolina 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
Able South Carolina Inc draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
Able South Carolina Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Able South Carolina Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.7M
- Social Security Administration$1.5M
- Department of Justice$1.1M
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 Able South Carolina 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 South Carolina
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
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 Able South Carolina 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 Able South Carolina Inc?
- Able South Carolina Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,524,370 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Able South Carolina Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,524,370 in grants to Able South Carolina Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Able South Carolina Inc?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Able South Carolina Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing