California · Nonprofit
Disability Voices United
Disability Voices United (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,108 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS FOUNDATION DBA ABILITY CENTRAL ($362,263). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $950k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $406k
What Disability Voices United does
Mission
Disability Voices United is directed by and for people with disabilities and their family members. We advocate for choice and control over our lives, meaningful outcomes that matter to us, and systems that are equitable and accountable to us.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education and trainingin 2024, Disability Voices United trained thousands of people with disabilities,family members and professionals on a range of topics. Dvu led the emerging leaders program to train self-advocates and family members, particularly people of color, on leadership and systemic advocacy skills. Dvu trained thousands of people on california's self-determination program through bi-monthly meetings and support groups. Dvu also led monthly meetings around ensuring access to communication supports for people with communication disabilities. Finally, dvu created the supported decision-making training and information center.
$426,094 spent51% of program spendingMovement buildingin 2024, Disability Voices United organized people with disabilities and familymembers and laid the groundwork for building a disability rights and justice movement in california. Dvu launched our ambassador program and recruited dozens of self-advocates and family members to help provider oversight of regional centers. Dvu spoke at various community-based organizations' meetings and assembled diverse coalitions representing the broad range of people with disabilities and families affected by discrimination and disparities.
$163,760 spent19% of program spendingAdvocacyin 2024, Disability Voices United educated the public and advocated for systemicchanges, including improving transparency in the regional center system. Dvu successfully made regional centers subject to the california public records act. Dvu also advocated for elimination of persistent racialand geographic disparities in the developmental disabilities system and increased oversight and accountability over systems that serve people with developmental disabilities. Dvu testified before various policy committees to call for equity, accountability and transparency.
$157,468 spent19% of program spendingNarrative changein 2024, Disability Voices United led efforts to change the narrative around a range of disability issues and eliminate societal ableism. Dvu worked to change the public perception of disability through our self-advocates speakers bureau made up of over 150 people with disabilities whom we have trained in presentation skills. Dvu also appeared extensively in the media on a range ofdisability issues with extensive coverage of the racial, ethnic and geographicdisparities for people with developmental disabilities.
$94,431 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $841,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $308k to $551k (+79%).
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 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 20% · 2023 49% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $37k → $313k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Voices United’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
Disability Voices United has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
59% 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 Voices United.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 71% · 2022 30% · 2023 64% — 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
60% of Disability Voices United's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
73% of Disability Voices United's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k 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.
Organizations like Disability Voices United
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Disability Voices United: 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 Voices United?
- Disability Voices United (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,108 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS FOUNDATION DBA ABILITY CENTRAL ($362,263). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Disability Voices United have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,205,108 in grants to Disability Voices United, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Disability Voices United?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS FOUNDATION DBA ABILITY CENTRAL is the largest funder on record, with $362,263 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Disability Voices United 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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