Abilis Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
066009327
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Greenwich, CT, USA
Phone
2035311880
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,052,313
Expenses
$40,424,242
Assets
$38,824,454
Liabilities
$19,795,005

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMY MONTIMURRO (PRES/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMY MONTIMURRO (PRES/CEO): $355,935 total reported compensation
  • LORIANNE O'DONNELL (COO): $247,452 total reported compensation
  • JUDITH RAPHAEL (FINANCE DIRE): $186,512 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Abilis provides people with developmental disabilities and their families in lower fairfield county with support and advocacy for building able lives and strong communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Employment, businesses and transtion services - to provide support for individuals with developmental disabilities in developing employment skills, opportunities, and career exploration. This program is specifically designed to help people with disabilities transition from high school into adulthood (life skills program) and eventually into their senior years. Life skills participants have individualized plans that include vocational, social, recreational and adaptive living goals and objectives. A wide range of daily activities help adults who age out of the workforce to maintain meaningful community and social connections. In an effort to assist individuals to secure community based jobs, abilis runs multiple businesses designed to help people cultivate their skills and participate in meaningful employment within abilis. The goal is to find the right business fit to allow individuals to learn and develop skills for the competitive work environment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $34.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $356K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.