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CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC

CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,232 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$10M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$241k
Net assets
$3.0M
5/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Children's Autism Center Inc does

Mission

Children's autism center, inc. Is dedicated to providing the highest quality, medically supported therapy to children of all ages with autism and developmental / language delays in northeast indiana. Children's autism center, inc. Strives to maintain a tuition assistance fund so that all children with a need for services may benefit, regardless of ability to pay.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Children's autism center, inc. Is dedicated to providing the highest quality, medically supported therapy to children of all ages with autism and developmental / language delays in northeast indiana. Children's autism center, inc. Strives to maintain a tuition assistance fund so that all children with a need for services may benefit, regardless of ability to pay.

    $12,149,696 spent$9,961,111 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,149,696.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 180 ($7.5M) Expenses 121 ($4.6M) Net assets 309 ($4.2M)2020 Revenue 191 ($7.9M) Expenses 161 ($6.1M) Net assets 438 ($6.0M)2021 Revenue 240 ($10.0M) Expenses 202 ($7.7M) Net assets 606 ($8.3M)2022 Revenue 195 ($8.1M) Expenses 213 ($8.1M) Net assets 603 ($8.3M)2023 Revenue 216 ($9.0M) Expenses 281 ($11M) Net assets 478 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 246 ($10M) Expenses 361 ($14M) Net assets 222 ($3.0M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (246)Expenses (361)Net assets (222)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $4.5M (+188%).

$1.6M
$4.5M
$7.1M
$8.8M
$10M
$8.5M
$5.6M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$349k
’18
$2.9M
’19
$1.8M
’20
$2.3M
’21
−$38k
’22
−$1.7M
’23
−$3.5M
’24
1.0
months of
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

Jill Forte

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed7877666
Joined·+2+0+1+1+0+2
No longer listed·111202
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $35k.

2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC’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

CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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

50% 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 CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC.

37%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 29% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 34% — 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

11% of CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

62% of CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

WI
IN
OH
PA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Founding Four Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC?
CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,232 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $241,232 in grants to CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC?
AWS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S AUTISM CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2018–2024), 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