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 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,389,476 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($1,812,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ann Peppers Foundationshared funders
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio match
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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 34 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 34 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 34% 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
82% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ann Peppers Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank Nigro Columbian Foundation Supporting People With Intellectual Disabiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sourceamericaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helpers Community Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Uniquesource Products & Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kovar Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kessler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,389,476 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($1,812,000). 18 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 34 organizations giving $5,389,476 in grants to ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK, 18 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.
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 34funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing