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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$238k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$10MScience & Tech$10MEducation$2.3MInternational$450kRecreation & Sports$115kEmployment$78kHuman Services$66kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $961,459, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,463,084 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $501,625 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $397k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
$30,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $6k → 8%YMCA OF METUCHEN EDISON WOODBRIDGE & SOUTH AMBOY: $5k → 8%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $5k → 10%Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $7k → 14%Food for Good Thought Vocational Support: $18k → 15%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

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

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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$311k · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: SCIENCE & RESEARCH

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 36 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
52

Total granted

$19M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+20%

Still filing today

56%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +53%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    4× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2017 · $486k
  • GB
    GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $405k · revenue +2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
    one grant, 2017 · $362k
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
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

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…

Science & Tech
2
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

To provide the highest quality care to improve the lives of children with orthopedic and related conditions and specific learning disabilities. texas scottish rite hospital for children focuses on patient care, research and education.

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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
5
Children's Health 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.

Health
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Child Study Center

The child study center (csc) provides children with complex developmental and behavioral disabilities the highest quality diagnosis, treatment and education to help them achieve their full potential.

Education
8
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
9
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
10
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Rhode Island Hospital

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is MaineHealth. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
49/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $1,296,262 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $970,572 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $839,493 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIACURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $801,326 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $678,081 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $578,443 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $486,364 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HIL…THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM: $395,385 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $362,302 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $350,755 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $326,989 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $299,999 · Other+34 more: $1,436,851 · Other+34 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,522,668 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,199,899 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND …Baylor College of Medicine: $1,172,731 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $993,573 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERVanderbilt University: $740,041 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityEmory University: $624,874 · EducationEmory UniversityGILLEN BREWER SCHOOL: $404,535 · EducationGILLEN BREWER SCHOOL+11 more: $816,108 · Education+11 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,291,239 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CE…SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $1,056,603 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND …Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $997,506 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angele…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $747,660 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHI…Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $475,485 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Fo…Children's Hospital Corporation: $398,457 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporatio…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $383,855 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCPrisma Health-Upstate: $340,727 · HealthPrisma Health-UpstateCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $223,596 · Health+8 more: $434,640 · Health+8 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $450,234 · InternationalNORTHWEST CENTER: $60,000 · EmploymentCELEBRATE EDU: $7,500 · EmploymentHAVE DREAMS: $5,487 · EmploymentFOOD FOR GOOD THOUGHT VOCATIONAL SUPPORT: $17,500 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $10,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $7,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $6,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of Metuchen: $5,250 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $5,040 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · Science & Tech
Other$8,822,822Education$7,474,429Health$6,349,768International$450,234Employment$72,987Human Services$50,790Science & Tech$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,522,668 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,291,239 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,199,899 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,172,731 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $1,056,603 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $997,506 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $993,573 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $747,660 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $740,041 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $624,874 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $475,485 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $450,234 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILLEN BREWER SCHOOL: $404,535 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $398,457 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $383,855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate: $340,727 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $244,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $223,596 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $199,812 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $160,578 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $136,109 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $118,466 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $90,854 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospital For Special Care: $74,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $59,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $45,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMERAKEY MIDWEST: $32,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEaster Seal Society of South Carolina: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $22,917 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $19,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR GOOD THOUGHT VOCATIONAL SUPPORT: $17,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetCARDINAL MCCLOSKEY SCHOOL AND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $13,799 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM MODEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON FIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,255 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $9,000 over 1y, 7.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 As…Charities Aid Foundat…The Chicago Community…Jewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Autism Speaks Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Autism Speaks Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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