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EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN

EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,142,268 to it, the largest being DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC ($1,443,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.9M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$4.1M
11/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Emerald Coast Autism Center In does

Mission

Emerald coast autism center is a non-profit school for children on the autism spectrum in okaloosa county florida. The mission is to improve the lives of students

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided education, tutoring, and other specialized therapy to 104

    $4,385,622 spent$4,238,471 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,385,622.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 85 ($2.7M) Expenses 105 ($3.0M) Net assets 89 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 128 ($4.1M) Expenses 119 ($3.4M) Net assets 134 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 119 ($3.8M) Expenses 124 ($3.5M) Net assets 143 ($4.1M)2024 Revenue 148 ($4.7M) Expenses 156 ($4.4M) Net assets 153 ($4.4M)2025 Revenue 155 ($4.9M) Expenses 184 ($5.2M) Net assets 143 ($4.1M)
201920202022202320242025
Revenue (155)Expenses (184)Net assets (143)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 2023 to 2024, from $4.7M to $8.9M (+90%).

$3.8M
$3.8M
$4.3M
$4.7M
$8.9M
$8.5M
201920202022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

14% of EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$334k
’19
−$304k
’20
$680k
’22
$257k
’23
$249k
’24
−$283k
’25
1.1
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

Heidi Blalock

Chair/CEO/trea

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920202022202320242025
Listed81210101010
Joined·+5·+2+3+0
No longer listed·1·230
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $8k → $984k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN’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

EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN.

46%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 78% · 2019 92% · 2020 65% · 2021 78% · 2022 61% · 2023 56% — 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

63% of EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

56% of EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
WI
NY
IN
VA
TN
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44 on record.

State$44
Top programs
  • FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $44

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN?
EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,142,268 to it, the largest being DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC ($1,443,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,142,268 in grants to EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN?
DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,443,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing