California · Nonprofit
AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED
AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,879 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($481,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $942k
- Net assets
- $906k
What Autistry Studios Incorporated does
Mission
We help teens and adults with autism, and other learning differences become successfully independent by leveraging their interests and talents. We deliver service through workshops, individual therapy and products as needed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Core workshop program - these workshops are groups of 3-5 clients with 2-4 staff working four hours at a time, once each week, on projects of the clients' choice. Projects are often miniature model and/or carpentry projects. We also do video and theater projects. This programs includes one-on-one counseling and therapy as needed.
$1,693,182 spent$56,248 earned by the program98% of program spendingAutistry comprehensive adult program - this is an adult day program vendorized by the golden gate regional center to provide services to adults with autism and related disabilities. The students in this program attend local community colleges while gaining employment and life skills, such as cooking, transportation and social communication skills. This program started in july 2017. All funding is from government funds.
$30,065 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,723,247.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $709k to $2.7M (+277%).
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 75% · 2021 76% · 2022 79% · 2023 82% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Janet K Lawson Mft
Exec dir, ce
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $73k → $202k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 94% · 2019 66% · 2020 62% · 2021 48% · 2022 71% · 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
67% of AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED'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 $308k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $634k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED: 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 AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED?
- AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,879 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($481,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $941,879 in grants to AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED?
- THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $481,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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