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ACEING AUTISM INC

ACEING AUTISM INC (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,152,914 to it, the largest being THE FLATLEY FOUNDATION ($5,500,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$6.2M
Net assets
$2.9M
19/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Aceing Autism Inc does

Mission

Make tennis available to children with autism and to use tennis as a means to enhance health and fitness, hand-eye coordination, motor development, and social skills for children with autism. Make sure kids have fun in the process.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Help children with autism to grow, develop and benefit from social connections and fitness through affordable tennis programming, uniquely serving individual needs while filling a national void for this growing and worthy population.

    $1,195,222 spentof which $400 as grants$192,876 earned by the program
    81% of program spending
  2. Assess changes in the children pre- and post- program to measure the efficacy of the sessions and provide in-depth reporting and analytics on the impact aceing autism has on physical, cognitive, behavioral, and social development.

    $150,880 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. Provide services, training, and tennis equipment to locations across the united states, and conduct tennis programs in public and private schools, on university campuses, and through local community venues.

    $133,002 spent
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,479,104.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($652k) Expenses 100 ($536k) Net assets 100 ($389k)2018 Revenue 199 ($1.3M) Expenses 127 ($682k) Net assets 347 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 193 ($1.3M) Expenses 169 ($906k) Net assets 437 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 180 ($1.2M) Expenses 171 ($915k) Net assets 504 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 176 ($1.2M) Expenses 153 ($818k) Net assets 590 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 210 ($1.4M) Expenses 240 ($1.3M) Net assets 610 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 223 ($1.5M) Expenses 268 ($1.4M) Net assets 615 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 340 ($2.2M) Expenses 351 ($1.9M) Net assets 707 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 382 ($2.5M) Expenses 447 ($2.4M) Net assets 734 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (382)Expenses (447)Net assets (734)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $489k to $1.4M (+188%).

$489k
$1.4M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.9M
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of ACEING AUTISM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$116k
’17
$616k
’18
$351k
’19
$259k
’20
$333k
’21
$79k
’22
$21k
’23
$340k
’24
$96k
’25
3.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Richard Spurling

Executive director

Board chair

Robert Lapides

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed889867688
Joined·+1+2+1+0+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·11220100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $19k → $1.2M.

13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ACEING AUTISM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ACEING AUTISM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89%
largest funder
93%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 63% · 2019 31% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

29% of ACEING AUTISM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ACEING AUTISM INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DE
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ACEING AUTISM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ACEING AUTISM INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 8%Fundraising 13%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

23%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

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Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACEING AUTISM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC?
ACEING AUTISM INC (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,152,914 to it, the largest being THE FLATLEY FOUNDATION ($5,500,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACEING AUTISM INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $6,152,914 in grants to ACEING AUTISM INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACEING AUTISM INC?
THE FLATLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACEING AUTISM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing