Colorado · Nonprofit
ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC
ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,187,006 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,616,847). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Ascendigo Autism Services Inc does
Mission
Ascendigo serves local, regional and national populations of youth and adults across the autism spectrum through experiential, community-based learning opportunities to enhance their health, abilities, personal growth and social engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ascendigo's adventures program offers winter, summer and spring overnight and day camps in aspen, colorado and surrounding areas, allowing participants with autism spectrum disorders to safely engage in sustained physical activities that foster personal growth.
$1,385,207 spent$874,015 earned by the program31% of program spendingAscendigo's life enrichment program is a comprehensive year-round activity for adults 18 and older of all levels of ability within the autism spectrum. It uses a holistic, individual approach encompassing social, vocational, athletic, and daily independent living skills.
$2,329,669 spent$1,469,935 earned by the program53% of program spendingThe outreach program offered by ascendigo provides in-home behavioral therapy and school consultations to children and teens with autism and related conditions. We specialize in delivering naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions via highly trained clinicians including bcbas, rbts, ots, and other licensed professionals.
$702,890 spent$443,498 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,417,766.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.0M to $4.9M (+381%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Dan Richardson
President and CEO
Board chair
Sallie Bernard
Secretary and board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $380k.
14 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ascendigo Property Holdings). These are real filings, and they are not money ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 79% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 36% · 2023 56% — 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
38% of ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of Justice$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES 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 ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC?
- ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,187,006 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,616,847). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $12,187,006 in grants to ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,616,847 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 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