· Public charity
Organization for Autism Research
To fund research and educate individuals and the general public about autism by providing evidence-based information drawn from research in various forms and forums: webinars, outreach, printed materials, website, electronic forums, social media, and a monthly e-newsletter.
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 15 grants below total $295,743 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $530,354 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $234,611 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 · $34k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON | $40,257 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL | $30,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER | $29,203 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $27,646 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - DENVER | $15,000 |
| MAY INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| NONPAREIL INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| EDEN II PROGRAMS | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CTR | $9,838 |
| ALL BRAINS BELONG VT | $9,800 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| MOORE COUNTY SCHOOLS | $6,499 |
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 (FY23–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $127k · revenue +10%
- HWHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC3× · 2020–2023 · $107k · revenue +42%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2017 · $30k
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +25%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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 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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education and Research
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is The Nebraska Medical Center. 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 48 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 59 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 DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE MAY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds ALL BRAINS BELONG VT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING 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: Johns Hopkins University · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Organization 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- All Brains Belong Vt Inc — 8% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.
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