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Autism Science Foundation

See schedule oto support autism research by providing funding and other assistance to scientists and organizations conducting, facilitating, publicizing and disseminating autism research.

$455k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.4MHealth$955kScience & Tech$125k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $426,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $455,482 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,149 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
$35,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$98,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$50,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$35,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$35,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$35,000
REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA$35,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$35,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$23,333
ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 11%BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $146k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $35k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $35k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $60k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $98k → 16%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $35k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON: $25k → 10%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $39k → 13%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 18%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOPSITAL: $35k → 9%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANSISCO: $427k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $35k → 11%REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $35k → 14%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $35k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $35k → 13%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $22k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $35k → 14%UC DAVIS: $75k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $23k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS: $22k → 19%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 16%UC SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $26k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $75k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $41k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $63k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Autism Science Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Autism Science Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$657k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$1.7M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+45%

Still filing today

50%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +44%
  • EU
    Emory University
    2× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +32%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $146k · revenue +95%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +58%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
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
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
4
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
5
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
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Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
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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
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Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
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Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
12
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is Peerbots. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public University Foundatio…Developmental Disabilities …Community Health CentersCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%60%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,526

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
22/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $521,662 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $348,830 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $196,282 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $110,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $96,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $85,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY+9 more — $179,583 · Other+9 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $77,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSIT…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $60,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIV…Yale University — $60,000 · EducationYale UniversityEmory University — $57,014 · EducationEmory UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $35,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDI…New York University — $35,000 · EducationNew York UniversityThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $35,000 · EducationThe Research Foundat…University of Miami — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $17,500 · Education+2 more — $12,500 · EducationThe Broad Institute Inc — $146,131 · HealthThe Broad Institute…Children's Hospital Corporation — $55,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $42,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSP…INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH — $38,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL SOCIE…UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $35,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN HEA…Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $35,000 · HealthVanderbilt Universi…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $35,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S …THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $22,338 · Health+2 more — $21,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · Community ImprovementHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC — $7,500 · Science & Tech
Other$1,537,857Education$464,514Health$429,969Community Improvement$70,000Science & Tech$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $146,131 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $77,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $57,014 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH — $38,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL — $22,338 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Autism Science Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Autism Science Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Autism Science Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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