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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.

$530k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Science & Tech$1.0MHealth$582kEducation$514kYouth Development$38kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $295,743, the rows itemized in this filing. The $530,354 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $234,611 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 $10k4 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $262k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON$40,257
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$30,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$30,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$30,000
UNC CHAPEL HILL$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER$29,203
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$27,646
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - DENVER$15,000
NONPAREIL INSTITUTE$10,000
EDEN II PROGRAMS$10,000
MAY INSTITUTE INC$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALL BRAINS BELONG VT: $10k → 9%ALL BRAINS BELONG VT: $10k → 9%ALL BRAINS BELONG VT: $7k → 9%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

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 35 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
16

Total granted

$1.8M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $127k · revenue +10%
  • HW
    HUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $107k · revenue +42%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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
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
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
The Rockefeller University

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…

Education
9
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
10
University of New Haven

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
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $127,044 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC: $68,595 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL …SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $61,512 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEA…Vanderbilt University: $60,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $54,976 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONEmory University: $51,264 · EducationEmory UniversityUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $40,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · EducationCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $39,995 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,990 · EducationLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $38,983 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $32,709 · Education+10 more: $183,158 · Education+10 moreBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $79,203 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEB…VCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS: $77,646 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUSVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $76,288 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UN…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $71,905 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HI…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $69,999 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $55,257 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $40,859 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $40,000 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine: $38,245 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $35,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $30,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $29,465 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $28,400 · Other+9 more: $98,664 · Other+9 moreBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $58,880 · HealthBOSTON MEDIC…THE MAY INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE MAY INST…CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $40,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S R…NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $39,599 · HealthNYU LANGONE …RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $25,000 · HealthRESEARCH FOU…The Nebraska Medical Center: $18,459 · HealthThe Nebraska…AUTISM EMPOWERMENT: $9,525 · HealthHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC: $107,102 · Science & TechUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $38,760 · Science & TechALL BRAINS BELONG VT INC: $26,850 · Human ServicesNONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE AZ: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$928,226Other$800,931Health$241,963Science & Tech$145,862Human Services$36,850Housing & Shelter$10,000

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 budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $127,044 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUGO W MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER INC: $107,102 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $69,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC: $68,595 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $61,512 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $58,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $54,976 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $51,264 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAY INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $39,995 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,990 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $39,599 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $38,983 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $38,760 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $32,709 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $29,991 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $29,968 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $29,465 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL BRAINS BELONG VT INC: $26,850 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $23,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,352 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $18,459 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Harris County: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN II SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEAT of Southern Nevada: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAUTISM EMPOWERMENT: $9,525 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…T Rowe Price Program …American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Equitable Foundation …Texas Instruments Fou…Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Organization for Autism Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Organization for Autism Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Organization for Autism Research through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home