Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC
ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC (Arizona) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,549,966 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($1,815,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Executive Council Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Saguaros Childrens Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Valley Anesthesiology Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $218k → $1.1M.
4 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 93% · 2019 53% · 2020 70% · 2021 35% · 2022 59% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
94% of ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Executive Council Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio matchAZ · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Saguaros Childrens Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio matchAZ · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Valley Anesthesiology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Childrens Services Foundation Dba Catalyst Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asociacion De Puertorriquenos en Marcha Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Phoenix Fire Fighters Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Valley of the Sun United Wayshared funderslocalAZ · backs 103 organizations that share your funders · funds 211 organizations near you
- Interest Ministriesshared fundersIL · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Desert Financial Credit Unionshared funderslocalAZ · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC?
- ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC (Arizona) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,549,966 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($1,815,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,549,966 in grants to ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,815,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 35funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing