California · Nonprofit
ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK
ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,482,294 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($1,812,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Arts and Services for Disabled Inc Dba Able Arts Work does
Mission
Arts and Services for Disabled, Inc primary mission is to provide life-long learning, community service and vocational opportunities through the creative arts for people with disabilities in an environment of warmth, encouragement, and respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arts and Services for Disabled, Inc (DBA Able ARTS Work) provides lifelong learning, community service and vocational opportunities through the creative arts therapies (music, dance/movement, drama, visual and language arts) to individuals of all abilities. The day programs provide adults full-day care and services year round (6 hours/day, 5 days/week) and ancillary workshop programs for physically, emotionally, developmentally and intellectually disabled individuals. Programs incorporate education classes including "daily living" classes designed to be age appropriate and provide proper supports to ensure recreational, leisure, professional and academic success. The arts are utilized as a "Universal Design" to break down barriers and access many life curricula to those individuals with disabilities who have difficulty working, living and socializing in an unaccommodating world. Our "Love Before Learning" philosophy embraces the individual with respect and dignity focusing on their capabilities to improve self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-competence to their greatest potential. Community inclusion is key for individuals with disabilities to not just be in, but to be part of…
$3,156,821 spent$3,545,207 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,156,821.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $4.4M (+92%).
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 7% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 14% · 2021 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 16% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Helen Dolas
CEO
Board chair
Anna Goranson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $131k → $1.3M.
7 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 59% · 2019 56% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 67% · 2023 22% — 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
29% of ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK'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
98% of ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $797k 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.
Against its field
ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK: 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 ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK?
- ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,482,294 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($1,812,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $5,482,294 in grants to ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK?
- John Gogian Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,812,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK 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 36 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