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Autism Society of America Inc

The autism society envisions individuals and families living with autism are able to maximize their quality of life, are treated with the highest level of dignity, and live in a society in which their talents and skills are appreciated and valued.

$662k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$63k
Largest
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$607kReligion$40kHuman Services$39kCrime & Legal$14kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $576,458, the rows itemized in this filing. The $661,955 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,497 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–50k19 grants · $514k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$30,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM SOCIETY OF TEXAS$62,716
AUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN$44,596
AUTISM SOCIETY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$43,500
THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES$38,916
AUTISM SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA$33,794
AUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGON$33,124
AUTISM SOCIETY OF TIDEWATER$32,525
AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER DETROIT$31,981
AUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADO$31,346
AUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN$30,000
AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS$26,976
AUTISM SOCIETY OF MARYLAND$26,077
AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN$24,136
AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON$22,161
AUTISM SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY$21,926
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AUTISM SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $6k → 10%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $39k → 14%AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON: $22k → 13%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

ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
LA
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 5 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$225k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+61%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • AS
    Autism Society of Texas
    2× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +71%
  • AU
    AUTISM UNITED INC
    2× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +42%
  • AS
    AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SACRED MONASTERY OF SAINT NINA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • VM
    VIRGIN MARY AND SAINT JOHN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • AA
    ALBANY AUTISM SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -23%
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
Autism Society of America

The autism society promotes the active and informed involvement of family members and the individual with autism in the planning of individualized appropriate services and support.

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2
Autism Days

Provide swimming safety to children with autism

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3
Autism Society of America Autism Society of the Bluegrass

Educational, training, social and support services to individuals on the Autism Spectrum and their caregivers.

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4
Autism Society of Northeast Wisconsin

The mission of the autism society of northeast wisconsin is to promote lifelong opportunities for people within the autism spectrum to be fully- included, participating members of their communities, by providing information and referral,…

Health
5
Autism Society of California

To promote lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families to be fully included, participating members of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education and research.

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6
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
7
The Society for the Study of Asd and Social Communication

None

Youth Development
8
Finding Autistic Solutions for Tomorrow

Assistance to families effected by autis

Health
9
Autism Society Northwestern Pennsylvania

We create connections, empowering everyone in the autism community with the resources needed to live fully.

Health
10
Autistic Self Advocacy Network Inc

The autistic self advocacy network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. drawing on the principles of the cross-disability community, asan seeks to organize the community of autistic…

Health
11
Autism Society of Central Virginia Chapter Inc

The mission of the autism society central virginia (ascv) is to support, empower, & build connections for our local autism community.

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12
End Autism Now Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Society of Mn; the most unlike its peers is National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum Foundation 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

27 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. 27 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
12/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Autism Society of Northern Virginia: $50,833 · OtherAutism Society of Northern VirginiaAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $44,596 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INCAUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGON: $33,124 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGONAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $31,981 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICAAUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADO: $31,346 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADOAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $26,976 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICAAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC: $21,926 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INCTHE SACRED MONASTERY OF SAINT NINA INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE SACRED MONASTERY OF SAINT NINA INCVIRGIN MARY AND SAINT JOHN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherVIRGIN MARY AND SAINT JOHN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCHAutism Society of Mahoning Valley: $19,500 · OtherAutism Society of Mahoning ValleyINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: $13,815 · Other+6 more: $34,638 · Other+6 moreAutism Society of Texas: $70,216 · HealthAutism Society of TexasTIDEWATER AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $37,632 · HealthTIDEWATER AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICAAUTISM UNITED INC: $36,821 · HealthAUTISM UNITED INCAUTISM SOCIETY OF MN: $33,794 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF MNAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN INC: $29,136 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN INCAUTISM SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC: $26,077 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INCSouth Carolina Autism Society Inc: $15,537 · HealthSouth Carolina Autism Society IncAUTISM SOCIETY OF INDIANA: $11,742 · Health+2 more: $11,220 · HealthTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $38,916 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…AUTISM SOCIETY OF DAYTON: $22,161 · Human ServicesAUTISM SOC…Autism Society Ventura County: $5,768 · Human ServicesAutism Soc…FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY NORTH DAKOTA: $12,090 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$348,735Health$272,175Human Services$66,845Philanthropy$12,090Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAutism Society of Texas: $70,216 over 2y, 12% of budgetAutism Society of Northern Virginia: $50,833 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $44,596 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $38,916 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDEWATER AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $37,632 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetAUTISM UNITED INC: $36,821 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF MN: $33,794 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGON: $33,124 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADO: $31,346 over 1y, 15% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN INC: $29,136 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC: $26,077 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF DAYTON: $22,161 over 1y, 17% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC: $21,926 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAutism Society of Mahoning Valley: $19,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetSouth Carolina Autism Society Inc: $15,537 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: $13,815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY NORTH DAKOTA: $12,090 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF INDIANA: $11,742 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY CENTRAL OHIO: $6,220 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON: $6,220 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAutism Society Ventura County: $5,768 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA NASSAU-SU: $5,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 18% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Add Impact Network IncDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Add Impact Network Inc · Carmax Foundation · Chc Creating Healthier Communities · AbbVie Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Autism Society of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Autism Society of America Inc. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • Autism Society of Maryland Inc: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 32 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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