Illinois · Nonprofit
AUTISM MCLEAN
AUTISM MCLEAN (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,461 to it, the largest being THE MERWIN FOUNDATION ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Autism McLean does
Mission
Support famlies with autism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Autism McLean has approximately 250 members, we serve all of mclean county with our financial assistance limited to a 60-mile radius of towanda, illinois. In 2024 we continued to provide stipends, grants and scholarships to members, agencies, individuals with autism and schools. We distributed 2 ipads to children with communication needs, 1 recreational grant to a family, and 4 post-secondary awards.we develop and help distribute information that is relevant to families and individuals who live with autism. We have an email distribution list of approximately 500 people. Many times, illinois state university and other universities will contact us to recruit participants in studies. We will distribute information and materials for events for several organizations who provide support to families in the community.we responded to approximately 300 requests through our website and facebook pages. We have 2,000 followers on our Autism McLean facebook and 1,000 on autism friendly communities facebook. Our facebook pages provide a means to publicly announce activities and events, along with connecting families to provide direct support to each other.we also connect to our members through…
$37,694 spentof which $6,700 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,694.
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 2021 to 2022, from $86k to $115k (+33%).
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.
100% of AUTISM MCLEAN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kari Sandhaas
Afc chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $22k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MCLEAN’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 MCLEAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 91% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 81% · 2023 90% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of AUTISM MCLEAN's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $711 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AUTISM MCLEAN has grown faster than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AUTISM MCLEAN
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 AUTISM MCLEAN: 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 AUTISM MCLEAN?
- AUTISM MCLEAN (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,461 to it, the largest being THE MERWIN FOUNDATION ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUTISM MCLEAN have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $146,461 in grants to AUTISM MCLEAN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUTISM MCLEAN?
- THE MERWIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUTISM MCLEAN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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