North Carolina · Nonprofit
Autism Support and Advocacy Center
Autism Support and Advocacy Center (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,756 to it, the largest being DUKE UNIVERSITY ($30,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Autism Support and Advocacy Center does
Mission
Our mission is to dismantle the systems, pathologies, and narratives that perpetuate the discrimination, exclusion, stigmas, and devaluation of Autistic, Neurodivergent, Chronically-ill, and Disabled people. We do this in pursuit of equity, autonomy, and reclamation of our bodies/minds as whole and valid. We believe in the co-creation of interdependent communities centered in abundance, access, and joy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Part & Parcel is a package-free grocery store that exists to employ autistic individuals and model the strength of inclusive employment for the community. In 2024 Part & Parcel continued to expand on the ways in which it provided for our community. Through our partnership with Durham Community Fridges, we installed a pantry next to the store. Through the pantry and fridge, thousands of pounds of food is circulated in the community. This fridge has also provided a space for our community to share food with each other, so much so that a second fridge was recently installed. With one new location, we added a community garden full of fresh herbs and vegetables, all free for the taking. Through our partnership with Don't Waste Durham, we washed, sanitized and reused 8,143 jars. It is through our partnerships with Farmer Foodshare and the West End Community Foundation, Inc. that the West End Free Market is possible. Our collective efforts have given access to high-quality produce and dry goods to the West End, Lyon Park, and Lakewood Communities. To date the free market has 322 members, prepared 672 ready to eat meals and fed 485 people by distributing 12,331 pounds of food to the…
$183,250 spent$-14,128 earned by the program99% of program spendingThrough our Torchlight Residency program, participants move through a curriculum of Disability Justice, weaving history with the present, unpacking the ways we have talked about, thought about, and treated Autistic, Neurodivergent, and Disabled people over time. This residency is a place to name, process, and respond to the internal and external manifestations of ableism and the ways that interests with the other held identities. Together, we explore the ways art can be a means of healing and an avenue of protest.
$221 spent$5,047 earned by the program0% of program spendingEducation and Advocacy -- In our continuing efforts to platform the disabled and neurodivergent voices within our community, we held the Neur-Affirming Strategies in Action conference. Our keynote speakers were given the space to share their experience with a wider audience, highlighting areas where through dismantling ableist structures within our community and internalizing Disability Justice concepts through everyday life we can move closer towards a community that's sustainable and equitable for everyone. Among the 500 attendees, many were teachers from Durham public schools and local healthcare workers. We host a perspective series of events with speakers and discussions focused on the Autistic experience and the voices in the Autistic community.
$1,275 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,746.
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 2021 to 2022, from $40k to $57k (+41%).
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.
103% of Autism Support and Advocacy Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Jackie Pilgrim
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $46k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Support and Advocacy Center’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 Support and Advocacy Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 Support and Advocacy Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 80% · 2022 60% · 2023 50% — 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 Support and Advocacy Center's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
Autism Support and Advocacy Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Autism Support and Advocacy Center
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.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 Support and Advocacy Center: 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 Support and Advocacy Center?
- Autism Support and Advocacy Center (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,756 to it, the largest being DUKE UNIVERSITY ($30,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Autism Support and Advocacy Center have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $115,756 in grants to Autism Support and Advocacy Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Autism Support and Advocacy Center?
- DUKE UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $30,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Autism Support and Advocacy Center 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 9 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