Ablevoices
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843548002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6155795871
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,309
- Expenses
- $138,967
- Assets
- $177,450
- Liabilities
- $1,982
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARIE WICKS (BOARD PRESID)
- PENNY RAY (BOARD SECRET)
- KAREN GERMAN (BOARD TREASU)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ablevoices was created by jen vogus, who is an educator, a photographer, and a parent-advocate of an adult child with a disability. When her son, aidan (whose speech is unintelligible, but he has lots to say), started elementary school, he had limited ways to communicate with his teachers and peers. So jen began taking and sharing pictures of aidans interests, the things he enjoyed doing, and the important people in his life. This opened up aidans world and gave him the opportunity to build lasting and meaningful relationships with his teachers and peers. Jen created ablevoices to harness the accessibility, power, and impact of photography to help others whose voices may not be heard. In addition, the mission of the organization is to increase disability awareness and promote more accepting and inclusive communities through the powerful medium of photography. Ablevoices initially began as a program of the arc williamson county and incorporated as its own nonprofit organization in 2019.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ablevoices teaches photography to youth and adults with disabilities as a means for self-expression, empowerment, and advocacy. Our foundational program is the photography for self-expression course that is taught in schools, community organizations, and virtually. The ultimate goal of photography for self-expression is to teach individuals to create photographs that communicate their interests, preferences and strengths, as well as foster the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in their communities. The culminating activity of the photography for self- expression course is to display participant photographs in a public gallery so family, friends, and the community can view the photos and learn about the perspective of individuals experiencing disability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.1%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.1% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.