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AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC

AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,541 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($74,281). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$554k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$128k
Net assets
$322k
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Autism Foundation of Tennessee Inc does

Mission

To identify abilities of our trainees and turn those skills into successful employment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide hands-on training and research-based curriculum designed to prepare young adults with autism for the workplace and independence.

    $607,624 spent$366,149 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $607,624.

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 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($693k)2018 Revenue 142 ($3.3M) Expenses 144 ($2.9M) Net assets 172 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 174 ($4.1M) Expenses 198 ($3.9M) Net assets 197 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue -14 ($-320111) Expenses 11 ($211k) Net assets 120 ($833k)2021 Revenue 10 ($240k) Expenses 20 ($393k) Net assets 117 ($808k)2022 Revenue 18 ($421k) Expenses 22 ($443k) Net assets 98 ($677k)2023 Revenue 24 ($568k) Expenses 34 ($671k) Net assets 91 ($628k)2024 Revenue 27 ($629k) Expenses 36 ($706k) Net assets 74 ($513k)2025 Revenue 23 ($554k) Expenses 38 ($758k) Net assets 46 ($322k)
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Revenue (23)Expenses (38)Net assets (46)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 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $833k (−65%).

$763k
$1.4M
$2.4M
$833k
$813k
$685k
$643k
$532k
$352k
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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

25% of AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$376k
’17
$495k
’18
$176k
’19
−$531k
’20
−$152k
’21
−$21k
’22
−$103k
’23
−$77k
’24
−$205k
’25
0.5
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.

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Listed689545677
Joined·+2+2+1+0+3+1+2+1
No longer listed·01512011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $23k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC’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

AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

87% 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 AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC.

58%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 54% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 43% — 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

25% of AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE 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 $33k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states.

NY
IN
CT
DE
TN
FL

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

’20
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC's revenue fell 77% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC?
AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,541 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($74,281). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $127,541 in grants to AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AUTISM FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $74,281 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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