Iowa · Nonprofit
BALANCE AUTISM
BALANCE AUTISM (Iowa) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $639,741 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($432,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $640k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Balance Autism does
Mission
We develop and implement innovative solutions for people with autism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's autism project - provides applied behavior analysis services to children with autism and parent training.
$9,686,670 spent$10,096,790 earned by the program43% of program spendingCommunity residential services (hcbs) the cost to provide home and community based "waiver" services to individuals with a primary diagnosis of intellectual disabilities to remain in our return to the community.
$7,161,304 spent$8,578,908 earned by the program32% of program spendingCampus residential services-the cost of providing services to residents in a twenty-four bed intermediate care facility for autistic adults.
$3,698,685 spent$5,417,751 earned by the program17% of program spendingYouth home-the cost of providing services to residents in an eight bed intermediate care facility for autistic children.
$1,811,430 spent$967,209 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,358,089.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11M to $16M (+48%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 12% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of BALANCE AUTISM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Steve Muller
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $39k → $11k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $282k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Balance Autism Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BALANCE AUTISM raised.
From the IRS filings of BALANCE AUTISM’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
BALANCE AUTISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 BALANCE AUTISM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 24% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 67% · 2022 54% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of BALANCE AUTISM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
72% of BALANCE AUTISM'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 $177k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $462k 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
BALANCE AUTISM's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BALANCE AUTISM
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Homestead Cedar Rapids LLC · disregarded
- Balance Autism Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALANCE AUTISM: 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 BALANCE AUTISM?
- BALANCE AUTISM (Iowa) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $639,741 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($432,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BALANCE AUTISM have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $639,741 in grants to BALANCE AUTISM, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALANCE AUTISM?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $432,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALANCE AUTISM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 18 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