Wisconsin · Nonprofit
AUTISM UNITED INC
AUTISM UNITED INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,069,862 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($284,372). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
AUTISM UNITED INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inclocalportfolio match
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 18% · 2021 14% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of AUTISM UNITED INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $40k → $115k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 UNITED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
AUTISM UNITED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
93% 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 UNITED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 37% · 2019 32% · 2020 50% · 2021 43% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% — 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
29% of AUTISM UNITED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
73% of AUTISM UNITED 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 $289k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $781k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 38 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1895 Bancorp of Wisconsin Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Badger Meter Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Shore Autism Circleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Next for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph Evinrude Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 131 organizations that share your funders · funds 153 organizations near you
- Daniel M Soref Rvoc Trshared fundersWI · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- The Burke Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AUTISM UNITED INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 AUTISM UNITED 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AUTISM UNITED INC?
- AUTISM UNITED INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,069,862 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($284,372). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUTISM UNITED INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,069,862 in grants to AUTISM UNITED INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUTISM UNITED INC?
- Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $284,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUTISM UNITED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 38funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing