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Autism Science Foundation

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$455k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $426,333, the rows itemized in this filing. The $455,482 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,149 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–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
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$35,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$35,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$35,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$35,000
REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA$35,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$23,333
ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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: $23k → 11%BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $146k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $35k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $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%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $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%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 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%UC 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
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
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Autism Science Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Autism Science Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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
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

  • 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 +91%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $146k · revenue +95%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +76%
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
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
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
3
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
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
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
6
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
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; 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.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 39 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)
25/25
Grantees still filing
22/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…New York University: $35,000 · EducationNew York UniversityThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $35,000 · EducationThe Research Foundat…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $35,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDI…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…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $35,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S …UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $35,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN HEA…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $35,000 · HealthVanderbilt Universi…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 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 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 budgetNew York University: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $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 budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $35,000 over 1y, 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 budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 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 Science Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Autism Science Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 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.

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