Massachusetts · Nonprofit
OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC
OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,181 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($323,795). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $732k
What Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc does
Mission
Training and employment services for persons over age 45 and other economically disadvantaged individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On june 30, 2025, the board of directors approved a plan to cease operations and liquidate the organization. As a result, the organization began winding down its programs and services and initiated steps to dispose of its assets, settle its obligations, and complete an orderly dissolution. Management expects that the liquidation process, including asset dispositions, settlement of obligations, and required filings, will be substantially completed by june 30, 2026. Actual timing may differ due to the timing of asset sales, grant closeouts, and settlement negotiations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Training services-senior community service employment program (scsep):an opportunity for low-income individuals 55 and older to receive on-the-job training at a not-for-profit or government organization. Participants receive a stipend while performing community service at their training site. The ultimate goal is for participants to transition to unsubsidized employment.
$4,793,870 spentof which $801,519 as grants$300,000 earned by the program89% of program spendingEmployment services-job coaching: group and individual job search skills instruction to include job coaching, resume assistance, interview practice/counseling, and employer-facilitated workshops. Snap outreach services: marketing and outreach to the community to inform them of eligibility and benefits of the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap). Services also include information on eligibility, assistance in completing applications, follow-up with the department of transitional assistance, trouble-shooting, financial counseling and support.
$52,300 spent1% of program spendingClassroom training:skills2work:a twelve-week office administration, computer skills and customer service training program that prepares students for re-entry to the workforce.able beginnings:a six-week introduction to computer and internet navigation skills program designed to enable job seekers to apply on-line for jobs, type resumes and cover letters and learn to prepare for interviews.medical & healthcare office training:a twelve-week instructional program plus six-week internship in medical office registration, administration, computer skills and customer service.incumbent workforce training:this program provides computer skills training to employees of companies of area companies. Services focus on ms office applications and are provided on a fee-for-service basis.able job resource center:the center provides short-term refresher courses covering microsoft office in a classroom environment. Job search skills instruction are also offered to program participants on a group and individual basis.
$530,970 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,377,140.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $3.2M (+174%).
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 84% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% · 2024 98% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Lydia Green
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 12 funders, grant income fell $226k → $132k.
3 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 49% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 23% · 2022 33% · 2023 15% — 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
48% of OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
94% of OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON 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. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC has grown faster than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49.3M on record — $39.4M federal, $9.9M state.
- Department of Labor$39.4M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$7.7M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.2M
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 OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON 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
81% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC?
- OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,181 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($323,795). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,488,181 in grants to OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $323,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON 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.
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 40 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