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Ag for Autism

To raise funding to provide education and tools to assist in the learning development of the Autistic population

$161k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $105,899, the rows itemized in this filing. The $160,954 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,055 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wynne Public School District$7,500
Nettleton School District$5,207
Beyond Boundaries$5,000
The Center for Exceptional Families$5,000
Lighthouse Home School$5,000
City of Marked Tree$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Maynard School District$5,000
Valley View Public School$5,000
Brookland School District$5,000
Rose Bud School District$5,000
West Memphis Christian School$5,000
Arrows Academy$5,000
Paragould Schools$5,000
Jonesboro School District$5,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Beyond Boundaries: $5k → 12%Dover School District: $1k → 15%Rose Bud School District: $5k → 16%Paragould Schools: $5k → 16%Brookland School District: $5k → 17%Maynard School District: $5k → 20%City of Marked Tree: $5k → 20%West Memphis Christian School: $5k → 22%Wynne Public School District: $8k → 22%Lee Academy: $5k → 35%Greene County Tech: $5k → 16%Buffalo Island Central School: $5k → 17%Arrows Academy: $5k → 16%Bay Public School: $5k → 17%Lighthouse Home School: $5k → 17%Nettleton School District: $5k → 17%Project Care: $5k → 17%Valley View Public School: $5k → 17%Westside School District: $3k → 17%The Center for Exceptional Families: $5k → 17%Arkansas State University ASU Howl: $5k → 17%Jonesboro School District: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Turning Point Childrens Social Services

* To provide education, social involvement, therapy, counseling recreation, and other therapeutic milieu to assist youth in their transition into foster care

Human Services
2
Watkins Vital Care Program

Watkins Vital Care Program is an adult day program for adults with autism and other disabilities that seeks to ensure that each day is filled with joy, purpose, and dignity. Watkins Vital Care Program provides life skills training,…

Human Services
3
North Star Child Development Center Inc

A school for children with autism spectrum disorders

Education
4
Texoma Autism and Behavior Intervention School

Provide educational services for children on the autism spectrum

Education
5
Faith Christian Academy

Education of children with special needs.

Education
6
Phillips County Developmental Center

Provide education and training for developmentally disabled individuals

Education
7
Inclusive Care Inc

provide services to special needs and developmentally challenged individuals

Health
8
The First Three Years Quality Care for Infants & Toddlers

Education/care for infants & toddlers

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9
Parents By Choice Inc

Residential care and treatment of emotionally and physically neglected children.

Human Services
10
St Louis Center

Serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an intentional, faith-based community.

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11
Autism Movement Therapy Inc

Autism education

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12
Square Pegs Connect Inc

Serving childern with diverse learning needs to help these children acheive their goals and succeed in school and beyond.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Support Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wynne Public School District: $7,500 · OtherWynne Public School DistrictNETTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,207 · OtherNETTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLSBrookland School District: $5,000 · OtherBrookland School DistrictArkansas State University ASU Howl: $5,000 · OtherArkansas State University ASU HowlJonesboro School District: $5,000 · OtherJonesboro School DistrictValley View Public School: $5,000 · OtherValley View Public SchoolRose Bud School District: $5,000 · OtherRose Bud School DistrictMaynard School District: $5,000 · OtherMaynard School DistrictIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCity of Marked Tree: $5,000 · OtherCity of Marked TreeParagould Schools: $5,000 · OtherParagould SchoolsLighthouse Home School: $5,000 · OtherLighthouse Home SchoolBuffalo Island Central School: $5,000 · OtherBuffalo Island Central SchoolBay Public School: $4,914 · OtherBay Public SchoolLee Academy: $4,518 · OtherLee Academy+2 more: $3,760 · OtherArrows Academy Inc: $5,000 · EducationArrows Aca…WEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationWEST MEMPH…PROJECT CARE: $5,000 · HealthPROJECT CA…Beyond Boundaries Inc: $5,000 · HealthBeyond Bou…Center For Exceptional Families: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$80,899Education$10,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter For Exceptional Families: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBeyond Boundaries Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Arrows Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center For Exceptional Families ↗
  • Who funds WEST MEMPHIS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CARE ↗
  • Who funds Beyond Boundaries Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ag for Autism funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ag for Autism. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Ag for Autism through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $141k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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