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COOKING AUTISM INC

COOKING AUTISM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,550 to it, the largest being THE WM M & A CAFARO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$85k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$43k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Cooking Autism Inc does

Program

  1. To supply support for in-school programs that focus on teaching children with neurological disorders to learn to cook

    $57,006 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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 ($10k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 516 ($52k) Expenses 933 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2020 Revenue 717 ($73k) Expenses 1537 ($57k) Net assets 164 ($39k)2021 Revenue 775 ($78k) Expenses 2121 ($79k) Net assets 185 ($44k)2022 Revenue 438 ($44k) Expenses 1820 ($68k) Net assets 84 ($20k)2023 Revenue 503 ($51k) Expenses 1385 ($52k) Net assets 80 ($19k)2024 Revenue 445 ($45k) Expenses 1311 ($49k) Net assets 62 ($15k)2025 Revenue 845 ($85k) Expenses 1525 ($57k) Net assets 182 ($43k)
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Revenue (845)Expenses (1525)Net assets (182)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 2024 to 2025, from $15k to $43k (+193%).

$0
$24k
$39k
$45k
$20k
$19k
$15k
$43k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Jonathan Carriveau

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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Listed666898911
Joined·+0+0+3+2+0+2+2
No longer listed·0011110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $500.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 COOKING AUTISM 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

COOKING AUTISM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

33% 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 COOKING AUTISM INC.

56%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 83% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

COOKING AUTISM INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.

OH
VA
TX

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

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’21
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

COOKING AUTISM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve9.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like COOKING AUTISM 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds COOKING AUTISM INC?
COOKING AUTISM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,550 to it, the largest being THE WM M & A CAFARO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COOKING AUTISM INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $36,550 in grants to COOKING AUTISM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COOKING AUTISM INC?
THE WM M & A CAFARO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COOKING AUTISM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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