Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CAPE ABILITIES INC
CAPE ABILITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,892,028 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($540,185). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Cape Abilities Inc does
Mission
To serve individuals with disabilities by educating, counseling, providing residential, social, therapeutic and employment supports, so as to empower them to achieve meaningful and valued roles in society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential program - the residential program is a satellite residential program for disabled adults in locations across cape cod. The program strives to maximize an individual's integration into the community and promote less restrictive living by improving social recreation and independent and supervised living skills.
$13,059,518 spent$872,817 earned by the program58% of program spendingEmployment and training program - the employment and training program prepares individuals for more integrated employment utilizing enclaves and independent competitive settings throughout the community. Service elements include paid work, vocational counseling, supported employment and training. It also provides for intensive levels of support to individuals to prepare them to function in a less restrictive environment and increase their self-sufficiency through use of modern techniques and equipment including work samples, paid work, community integration and other activities.
$4,815,620 spent$1,437,109 earned by the program21% of program spendingShared living - an important alternative to group homes, the shared living program matches adults with disabilities with families or individuals (providers) who want to share their home. Providers support individuals with transportation, community involvement and other activities of daily living like personal care, cooking and money management. This living arrangement provides structure for development, growth and change, and also new ideas about what makes a family, and find sharing their home incredibly gratifying.
$2,446,717 spent$2,628,476 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther programs include:life skills day habilitation: offered at our hyannis lyndon center, our life skills/day habilitation program provides therapeutic-based activities to enhance wellness and independence for individuals who need more structure in order to succeed. As a community-committed program, it offers a variety of volunteer and social activities as well as physical exercise, arts and cultural events that are planned to meet each individual's service plan goals. Physical and occupational therapy and speech and language supports are integrated into the daily program offerings.transportation services: access to reliable transportation is a key component of living an active, integrated life for people with disabilities. Since cape cod has limited options for public transportation, our transportation program is crucial in enabling cape abilities to fulfill its mission. Cape abilities provides an extensive transportation service to hundreds of our disabled adult program participants across cape cod. Our wheelchair-lift and passenger vans travel routes across cape cod daily to help cape abilities participants in our day and employment programs get to and from their daily…
$2,294,754 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,616,609.
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 $13M to $18M (+39%).
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 62% · 2018 60% · 2019 63% · 2020 65% · 2021 64% · 2022 71% · 2023 71% · 2024 68% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of CAPE ABILITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kim Mcelholm
President/CEO
Board chair
Molly Karlson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $124k → $318k.
9 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CAPE ABILITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
CAPE ABILITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
40% 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 CAPE ABILITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 19% · 2021 19% · 2022 30% · 2023 21% — broadly stable.
“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
56% of CAPE ABILITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
63% of CAPE ABILITIES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CAPE ABILITIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CAPE ABILITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $149.1M on record — $10.3M federal, $138.9M state.
- Department of Homeland Security$5.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$959k
- Department of Agriculture$604k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$113.9M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$24.9M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$68k
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 CAPE ABILITIES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPE ABILITIES 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 CAPE ABILITIES INC?
- CAPE ABILITIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,892,028 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($540,185). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPE ABILITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $2,892,028 in grants to CAPE ABILITIES INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPE ABILITIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $540,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPE ABILITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 83 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