· Public charity
Autism Speaks Inc
See schedule owe achieve our organizational mission by ensuring access to reliable information and services across the lifespan; supporting research and innovation that drives toward improved quality of life and well-being for individuals with autism throughout their lives; through advocacy, partnerships and collaboration, leveraging our…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $961,459 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,463,084 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $501,625 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $238,365 |
| RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NJ | $99,999 |
| THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $91,716 |
| SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | $62,846 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $57,517 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA BOARD OF REGENTS | $47,673 |
| THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH | $37,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $35,708 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $34,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $30,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH-UPSTATE | $30,000 |
| TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM | $25,503 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISTIC COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC | $22,758 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $311k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCIENCE & RESEARCH
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +44%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +53%
- BCBaylor College of Medicine4× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +67%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2017 · $486k
- GBGILLEN BREWER SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $405k · revenue +2%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISone grant, 2017 · $362k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Food for Good Thought Vocational Support. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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. 63 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hospital For Special Care ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Autism Speaks Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 0% of income from government
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.