Ability Beyond Disability

Analysis

Ability Beyond Disability is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethel, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Ability Beyond Disability reported income of $18.2m and spending of $19.1m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $17.7m to $18.2m (+2.9%), an average of +0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Ability Beyond Disability sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pathway Homes Inc ($18.2m), Tessie Cleveland Community Services Corporation ($18.2m) and Iroquois Nursing Home Inc ($18.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $155k (0.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $11.6m. At year end it held assets of $12.0m against liabilities of $10.4m, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 331 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.