Washington, D.C. · 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…
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $961k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $238,365
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Autism Speaks Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $723k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $3.0M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $4.5M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $2.8M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $2.2M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $2.6M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $6.0M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Health$10MScience & Tech$10MEducation$2.3MInternational$450kRecreation & Sports$115kEmployment$78kHuman Services$66kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
ME
VT
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,522,668 | 6 | 0% |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | $1,296,262 | 7 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $1,291,239 | 7 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $1,172,731 | 4 | 0% |
| Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center | $1,056,603 | 5 | 4% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $997,506 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $993,573 | 7 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $970,572 | 7 | n/a |
| Regents Univ of California | $839,493 | 6 | n/a |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $801,326 | 7 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,522,668 | 6 | 0% |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | $1,296,262 | 7 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $1,291,239 | 7 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $1,172,731 | 4 | 0% |
| Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center | $1,056,603 | 5 | 4% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $997,506 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $993,573 | 7 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $970,572 | 7 | n/a |
| Regents Univ of California | $839,493 | 6 | n/a |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $801,326 | 7 | n/a |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $747,660 | 6 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $740,041 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $678,081 | 7 | n/a |
| Emory University | $624,874 | 4 | 0% |
| Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $578,443 | 5 | n/a |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $486,364 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $475,485 | 3 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $450,234 | 2 | 0% |
| Gillen Brewer School | $404,535 | 1 | 6% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $398,457 | 4 | 0% |
| The Metrohealth System | $395,385 | 5 | n/a |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $383,855 | 3 | 0% |
| University of California Davis | $362,302 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ohio State University | $350,755 | 5 | n/a |
| Prisma Health-Upstate | $340,727 | 5 | 0% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $326,989 | 3 | n/a |
| Rutgers the State University | $299,999 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Massachusetts | $245,740 | 3 | n/a |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $230,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $223,596 | 3 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $199,812 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $167,197 | 4 | n/a |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $160,578 | 3 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University Foundation | $136,109 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Children's Research Institute | $118,466 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Duke University | $90,854 | 1 | 0% |
| Hospital For Special Care | $74,999 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwest Center | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oakton Community College Educational Foundation | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| John Carroll University | $59,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Raun D Melmed Md | $50,142 | 1 | n/a |
| Tarrant County College District | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| National Academy of Sciences | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| MaineHealth | $45,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Waukegan Park District | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fast Feet Running and Athletics Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Hive Networks | $44,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $37,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $33,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Merakey Midwest | $32,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tech Kids Unlimited Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Chinese American Association for Autistic Community | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Easter Seal Society of South Carolina | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Islands of Brilliance Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement | $22,917 | 1 | 0% |
| Hatching Hope Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Goodwin University Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Drexel University | $19,102 | 1 | 0% |
| Advocations LLC | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Food for Good Thought Vocational Support | $17,500 | 1 | 41% |
| Cardinal McCloskey School and Home for Children | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $13,799 | 1 | 0% |
| Autism Model Community School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tikvah-Etta and Lazear Israel Center for the Developmentally Disabled | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Gifts Theatre Inc Co Elise Larsen | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New England Center for Children Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anderson Five Education Foundation | $9,255 | 1 | 4% |
| Autism Society of Southern Arizona Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Keen St Louis LLC | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Josephine Kernes Memorial Pool | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Keshet | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Celebrate Edu | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of Portage Township Foundation Inc | $7,351 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $7,288 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Via Rehabilitation Services Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| STRIDE Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Social Outdoor Fitness | $5,980 | 1 | n/a |
| Have Dreams | $5,487 | 1 | 0% |
| Swim Strong Foundation Inc | $5,440 | 1 | 2% |
| YMCA of Metuchen | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Barry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Inc | $5,130 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Burlington YMCA Inc | $5,040 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Autism Speaks Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 59.
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.
Muscular Dystrophy Association IncIL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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.
About Autism Speaks Inc
- How much does Autism Speaks Inc give?
- Autism Speaks Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $961,459, out of $1,463,084 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Autism Speaks Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Science & Tech (43%), Education (10%).
- Who are Autism Speaks Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($1.5M), Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc ($1.3M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($1.3M).
- Does Autism Speaks Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Autism Speaks Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Autism Speaks Inc based?
- Autism Speaks Inc is based in DC.
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