Massachusetts · Nonprofit
VIABILITY INC
VIABILITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,144 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($408,275). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $510k
- Net assets
- $50M
What Viability Inc does
Mission
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive living services - viability, inc. Offers several models of living supports for adults with disabilities to live safely and fully with dignity, greater independence, choices and access to participate as members of their communities. Options include adult family care, residential and other supportive living services where individuals can live in their own apartments with 24-hour supports, or with host families. The individual is at the center of services development, plans, and goals for developing their skills and accessing opportunities. As with all viability services, we strive to honor the full dimensions of each individual's identity and find ways to overcome common and unique barriers, which they may encounter.
$7,709,104 spent$8,735,533 earned by the program23% of program spendingEmployment services - viability, inc. Offers a range of employment and pre-employment services, which provide avenues for teens and adults with disabilities or disadvantages to explore and experience work opportunities, and to achieve purpose and success in their work pursuits as contributing members of the workforce and their communities. Our services include vocational training; job readiness skill-building; assessments; job training, matching, and job placement; on the job coaching support; and independent and competitive employment opportunities. We also work with 500+ employment sites as partners in making their workplaces more inclusive, and accessible. Using innovative and individualized training tools and approaches, viability celebrates over 3,000 individuals in achieving employment annually, in earning money, helping to support their families, and providing employers with a willing and able workforce. Our employment services are carf accredited.
$9,300,321 spent$10,761,888 earned by the program28% of program spendingCommunity engagement services - viability, inc. Serves adults with disabilities or disadvantages in psycho-social clubhouse model programs, day habilitation programs and community-based day services. Each program model serves to break down the walls of stigma, and barriers to access by providing opportunities for program members to build skills, pursue interests and education, socialize, and contribute their skills and talents within their program and their communities. Guided by what our program members identfiy as their own interests, preferences, and goals, we develop customized plans and opportunities ranging from soft skills to money management to applying for college to volunteering to health and wellness. Our members grow community gardens for their cities, serve as disability advocates, perform outreach, produce radio shows, help train interns, hold craft fairs and more. In our clubhouse international accredited clubhouse programs, employment and a work-ordered day where members are colleagues helping to run the club's operations are the focus. Our services are also carf accredited.
$12,648,376 spent$19,871,332 earned by the program38% of program spendingOther program services - viability, inc. Serves teens and young adults with transitional services to prepare them for their next steps into employment, college and educational programs. We offer job readiness; assessments; job exploration opportunities through paid internships and supports to connect with colleges and trade schools to explore opportunities. Using innovative technologies and individualized approaches, we provide a safe, judgement-free zone for teens and young adults to start envisioning and building towards their futures. Additionally we provide daily transportation services to hundreds of individuals with disabilities annually with a stellar safety record.
$3,243,693 spent$4,301,518 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,901,494.
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 2023 to 2024, from $45M to $53M (+18%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of VIABILITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Colleen Holmes
President and CEO
Board chair
Francis Fitzgerald
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $53k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 VIABILITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
VIABILITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 VIABILITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 88% · 2019 80% · 2020 89% · 2021 46% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of VIABILITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
95% of VIABILITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $487k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
VIABILITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VIABILITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $231.7M on record.
- MA$185.1M
- CT$46.7M
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 VIABILITY 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
85% 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 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pleasant Pittsfield Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VIABILITY INC?
- VIABILITY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,144 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($408,275). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VIABILITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $510,144 in grants to VIABILITY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIABILITY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $408,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIABILITY 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 11 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