North Carolina · Nonprofit
ARMS AROUND ASD
ARMS AROUND ASD (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,935 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($44,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Arms Around Asd does
Mission
The mission of Arms Around ASD is to support the autism community through self-care and development of executive functioning skills promoting the growth of the community as a whole. Arms is unique in that we provide services for people on the autism spectrum regardless of age, ability or income AND their families, care providers, support staff and other professionals (teachers, doctors, nurses, therapists, etc.) who work with them. Everyone who works with AAASD is a volunteer. From our acupuncturist to our Zumba instructor, front desk person to executive director, we all have our arms around autism spectrum disorder. Arms is one giant hug to families who seek our services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
First Program Service Accomplishments Description (Development of Executive Functioning Skills) Autistic adults are more likely to be successful in life (with success defined as not just getting a job, but keeping a job) if their executive functioning skills are honed. Services provided: Retail experience, banking/finance classes, meditation, mindfulness, dance, gardening, stop motion animation, art classes, yoga and Zumba. Approximately 560 people benefitted from these services in 2025.
$36,650 spent30% of program spendingSecond Program Service Accomplishments Description (Self Care) From a physical health perspective, self-care has been clinically proven to reduce heart disease, stroke and cancer. Improving self-care can be especially challenging for autistic people, but it is critically important. Services provided: acupuncture, chiropractic work, massage, meditation, naturopathic services, nurse practitioner check-ins, pampering/facials, pet therapy, physical therapy classes, dry needling, psychotherapy, reflexology, reiki/energy work, supportive counseling and LGBTQ+ counseling. Approximately 610 people benefitted from these services in 2025.
$61,084 spent50% of program spendingThird Program Service Accomplishments Description (Socialization Skills) Autistic people sometimes need to learn how to engage friends or may be overwhelmed by the idea of new experiences. They may have outbursts and throw tantrums or express themselves inappropriately in social contexts, essentially due to their difficulty to either understand a social situation or make themselves understood by others. Services provided include various social groups with regular meet-ups and outings, educational navigation, relationship/dating classes, sex education classes, transitions navigation, bird watching/nature experiences, pet therapy and a music listening group. Approximately 200 people benefitted from these services in 2025.
$24,434 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,168.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $42k to $71k (+67%).
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.
98% of ARMS AROUND ASD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michele Louzon
Executive Director
Board chair
Rich Johston
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $16k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 ARMS AROUND ASD’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ARMS AROUND ASD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARMS AROUND ASD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 53% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 51% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
90% of ARMS AROUND ASD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ARMS AROUND ASD has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARMS AROUND ASD
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARMS AROUND ASD: 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 ARMS AROUND ASD?
- ARMS AROUND ASD (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,935 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($44,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARMS AROUND ASD have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $82,935 in grants to ARMS AROUND ASD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMS AROUND ASD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $44,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMS AROUND ASD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing