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National Foundation For Autism Research
The National Foundation for Autism Research (NFAR) is dedicated to improving the lives of autistic individuals by empowering them with equitable opportunities that promote independence, inclusion, and lifelong success, thereby strengthening the communities we serve.
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 8 grants below total $66,763 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,855 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,092 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Diego Unified School Dist | $10,235 |
| Fleet Science Center | $10,000 |
| Amandas Martial Arts | $10,000 |
| Unscripted Learning | $10,000 |
| Ride Above Disability Center | $8,000 |
| Poway Unified School District | $6,528 |
| Best Day Coffee LLC | $6,000 |
| Encinitas Educational Found | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- ASAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC3× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +154%
- PAPositive Action Community Theatre3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +16%
- SDSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AAAmandas Adapitve Martial Artone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BIBEACONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +683%
- SDSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +48%
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.
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…
Since 1945, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) has served as a catalyst for investing in the future of young people through joyful and transformative music-making experiences. We reach over 2,500 students and families annually throughout San…
Founded in 1998, the bay school's mission is to provide scientifically based educational services and to contribute to research that serves children with autism. the year-round school educates students between the ages of five and…
At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
Tamil Academy
We help children discover a way of dealing with life that is realistic, comfortable, and satisfying. Self-confidence is nurtured as children learn to rely on themselves and each other. The noncompetitive environment is one that allows each…
Elementary Institute of Science (EIS) is a premier science enrichment center dedicated to developing STEM skills and interests in order to address the widening gap of under-represented students in science. Through inquiry-based project…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is Turtleback Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 AUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Positive Action Community Theatre (PACT) ↗
- Who funds UNSCRIPTED LEARNING ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BEACONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds TURTLEBACK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Banyan Tree Educational Services ↗
- Who funds BLISSFUL SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds ENCINITAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Mainly Mozart Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Cushman Foundation · The Thursday Club Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd
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 National Foundation For Autism Research 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.
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.
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