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Autism Research Institute

The mission of the Autism Research Institute is to advance the health of autistic people through biomedical research and free education.

$809k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$950kScience & Tech$331kEducation$128k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $275,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $809,463 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $534,463 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johnson Center$100,000
Arizona State University$100,000
Seattle Childrens Hospital$50,000
Baylor College of Medicine$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Arizona State University: $100k → 11%Boston University School of Medicine: $21k → 16%University of Minnesota: $50k → 11%Geisinger Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute: $50k → 11%UCSD - Dept of Neurosciences: $50k → 11%David Geffen Schl of Med at UCLA: $50k → 14%UC Davis: $35k → 16%Stony Brook University: $20k → 7%The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene: $6k → 14%Johnson Center: $100k → 10%University of Texas: $50k → 14%Baylor College of Medicine: $25k → 16%University of South Carolina: $27k → 16%Greenwood Genetic Center: $11k → 18%Michigan State University: $50k → 11%Seattle Childrens Hospital: $50k → 9%Rutgers: $50k → 8%Drew University: $7k → 6%ASU: $95k → 11%Mass General Hospital: $50k → 16%Division of Rheumatology: $20k → 16%Arizona State University: $25k → 11%Massachusetts General Hospital: $49k → 16%UC Davis School of Medicine: $3k → 16%Mass General Hospital: $20k → 16%UC Davis: $25k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
AZ
NC
SC
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 3 repeat orgs$982k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
23

Total granted

$377k
$807k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+27%

Still filing today

33%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $195k · revenue +51%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2022 · $99k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
    2× · 2018–2020 · $83k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • UO
    University of Texas at Dallas
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UD
    UCSD - Dept of Neurosciences
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
12
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is The Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 30 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $98,875 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $82,839 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Texas at Dallas: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas at DallasUCSD - Dept of Neurosciences: $50,000 · OtherUCSD - Dept of NeurosciencesUniversity of Missouri - Columbia: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Missouri - ColumbiaUniversity of Miami: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of MiamiUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTARUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYUCLA PAYMENT SOLUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE: $50,000 · OtherUCLA PAYMENT SOLUTIONS AND COMPLIANCEMichigan State University: $50,000 · OtherMichigan State UniversitySouth Carolina Research Foundation: $26,800 · Other+6 more: $125,672 · Other+6 moreARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $195,050 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…Yale University: $50,000 · EducationYale UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $50,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The St…GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED: $49,992 · EducationGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MEDBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine+1 more: $7,485 · EducationThe Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $30,200 · HealthGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC: $10,500 · HealthRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$784,186Education$427,527Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Health$96,700

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $195,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetYale University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED: $49,992 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $30,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Research Foundation: $26,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREW UNIVERSITY: $7,485 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Drew University: 0% of 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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How do I get to Autism Research Institute?

Find your warmest path to Autism Research Institute 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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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