Virginia · Nonprofit
DISABILITY BELONGS
DISABILITY BELONGS (Virginia) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,885,546 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,147,372). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Disability Belongs does
Mission
Disability Belongs drives cultural and policy change to ensure our full representation and influence, creating a more accessible, equitable, and inclusive society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Entertainment and news media - increases diverse and authentic representation of disabled people in media so people with disabilities are seen for what they can do, instead of what they cannot.
$637,248 spent$573,841 earned by the program30% of program spendingPolicy and civic engagement - promotes best practices in education, employment, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and access.
$414,291 spent20% of program spendingLeadership and workforce development - enables diverse people with disabilities to participate fully in decision making.
$384,753 spent18% of program spendingCommunity outreach - the organization works collaboratively on improving education and employment rates for people with disabilities. The organization also addresses barriers to employment for qualified people with disabilities: accessibility, reasonable accommodations, mentoring, and transportation.
$376,777 spent18% of program spendingFaith inclusion and belonging - ensures the inclusion of people with disabilities in faith-based communities.
$291,760 spent14% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,104,829.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $3.5M (+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: 2019 2% · 2020 14% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of DISABILITY BELONGS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Ariel Simms
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $502k → $1.5M.
17 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 DISABILITY BELONGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
DISABILITY BELONGS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 DISABILITY BELONGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 12% · 2022 18% · 2023 34% — 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
42% of DISABILITY BELONGS'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
DISABILITY BELONGS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
DISABILITY BELONGS's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DISABILITY BELONGS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABILITY BELONGS: 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 DISABILITY BELONGS?
- DISABILITY BELONGS (Virginia) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,885,546 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,147,372). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY BELONGS have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $10,885,546 in grants to DISABILITY BELONGS, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY BELONGS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,147,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY BELONGS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 80 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