Tennessee · Nonprofit
ABLEVOICES
ABLEVOICES (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,429 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION ($43,220). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Ablevoices does
Mission
Ablevoices was created by jen vogus, who is an educator, a photographer, and a parent-advocate of an adult child with a disability. When her son, aidan (whose speech is unintelligible, but he has lots to say), started elementary school, he had limited ways to communicate with his teachers and peers. So jen began taking and sharing pictures of aidans interests, the things he enjoyed doing, and the important people in his life. This opened up aidans world and gave him the opportunity to build lasting and meaningful relationships with his teachers and peers. Jen created Ablevoices to harness the accessibility, power, and impact of photography to help others whose voices may not be heard. In addition, the mission of the organization is to increase disability awareness and promote more accepting and inclusive communities through the powerful medium of photography. Ablevoices initially began as a program of the arc williamson county and incorporated as its own nonprofit organization in 2019.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Ablevoices teaches photography to youth and adults with disabilities as a means for self-expression, empowerment, and advocacy. Our foundational program is the photography for self-expression course that is taught in schools, community organizations, and virtually. The ultimate goal of photography for self-expression is to teach individuals to create photographs that communicate their interests, preferences and strengths, as well as foster the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in their communities. The culminating activity of the photography for self- expression course is to display participant photographs in a public gallery so family, friends, and the community can view the photos and learn about the perspective of individuals experiencing disability.
$113,737 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,737.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $129k to $177k (+38%).
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.
88% of ABLEVOICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $129 → $25k.
4 of 11 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 ABLEVOICES’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
ABLEVOICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 ABLEVOICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2021 90% · 2022 28% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of ABLEVOICES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% 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
50% of ABLEVOICES'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 $69k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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
ABLEVOICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ABLEVOICES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
81%
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 ABLEVOICES: 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 ABLEVOICES?
- ABLEVOICES (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,429 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION ($43,220). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABLEVOICES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $138,429 in grants to ABLEVOICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABLEVOICES?
- COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABLEVOICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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