Nevada · Nonprofit
Grant A Gift Autism Foundation
Grant A Gift Autism Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,901,619 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($500,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Grant A Gift Autism Foundation does
Mission
Grant a Gift Autism Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization providing comprehensive clinical services, resources, education, research, and advocacy for individuals and families living with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions. Grant-A-Gift Autism Foundation took over the Ackerman Autism Center operations from UNLV Health effective June 28, 2021. The Foundation created a wholly-owned, single-member LLC to continue to provide clinical treatment services to its patients.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clinical Treatment Services - The clinical treatment services provide access to individuals and families seeking autism services, including early diagnostics, assessments, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, pediatric neurology, neuropsychological assessments, as well as therapeutic access to include Early Start Denver Model.
$4,971,588 spent$1,663,694 earned by the program97% of program spendingGroup Social Treatment Service Programs include BUDS, TeenBUDS, and the Daily Living Skills Program. These programs focus on Building Up and Developing Social play life skills for children in different age brackets from 6-18 years old. Children are given the opportunity to gain much-needed skills and learn how to interact with peers in a nurturing environment, ultimately creating future success in relationships, the workplace, and the community.Vocational Programming - Programs include the TeenWORKS Community and Internships. Occupational Readiness, Knowledge, and Skills Programs consist of community-based vocational/life-prep transition programs, serving teenagers to young adults in their twenties on the autism spectrum, or with other neurodevelopmental conditions. Along with gaining a comprehensive set of job readiness skills across multiple settings, participants have the potential to gain social and behavioral skills across multiple settings, participants have the potential to gain social and behavioral skills required for a successful transition into paid working positions and other areas of adulthood. Quarterly reports focus on tracking individualized progress throughout the…
$165,582 spent$2,385 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,137,170.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $5.9M (+134%).
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 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 55% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Grant A Gift Autism Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Brian Hager
President & CEO
Board chair
Gary Ackerman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $24k → $319k.
9 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Grant A Gift Autism Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Grant A Gift Autism Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 Grant A Gift Autism Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 26% · 2019 35% · 2020 35% · 2021 22% · 2022 48% · 2023 38% — 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
25% of Grant A Gift Autism Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
85% of Grant A Gift Autism Foundation's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $930k 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.
Against its field
Grant A Gift Autism Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Grant A Gift Autism Foundation
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ackerman Autism Center LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grant A Gift Autism Foundation: 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 Grant A Gift Autism Foundation?
- Grant A Gift Autism Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,901,619 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($500,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Grant A Gift Autism Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,901,619 in grants to Grant A Gift Autism Foundation, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grant A Gift Autism Foundation?
- UCLA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grant A Gift Autism Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 50 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