Texas · Nonprofit
KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION
KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,791 to it, the largest being Shunpike Charitable Foundation ($80,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $514k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Knowautism Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to promote autism awareness and to help children and adults affected by autism by providing education and resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition & therapy assistance program provides scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to help ease the financial burden of therapeutic treatments and intervention for autism. To be eligible, the child must be between 12 months and 18 years of age and must have already received a clinical diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. These awards may be used for behavioral intervention programs, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social skills groups, special needs schools, and special education programs.
$132,800 spentof which $132,800 as grants54% of program spendingCommunity partnerships program - the purpose of this program is to support other organizations with programming for special needs children in the community to further our mission.the special interest fund was established to help children with autism access adaptive and inclusive programs and services that do not fall under the umbrella of traditional autism treatments or interventions. Awards range from $500 to $2,000 per child. Eligible programs include specialized camps, music therapy, art therapy, yoga therapy, therapeutic horseback riding, adaptive swim lessons, and similar programming. This fund may also be used to cover fees for the services of autism/disability advocates (up to $1,000).art program focuses on providing children an outlet to express themselves. We provide art kits to our grant recipients, students from schools, and other organizations, to children interested in participating in our art festival. The submissions are featured in our annual as I am art festival. Autism diagnostic assistance program provides financial assistance to families to help subsidize the cost of diagnostic testing for children between the ages of 12 months and 14 years of age.
$106,630 spentof which $60,580 as grants43% of program spendingThe emergency relief program provides direct financial assistance to families with children and adults affected by autism to help them with food and school supplies when they are negatively impacted by natural disasters.
$6,955 spentof which $6,955 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $246,385.
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 2023 to 2024, from $757k to $1.0M (+35%).
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.
133% of KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $32k → $53k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION’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
KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
88% 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 KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 83% · 2019 45% · 2020 54% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 52% — 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
27% of KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
56% of KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION'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 $162k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KNOWAUTISM 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION?
- KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,791 to it, the largest being Shunpike Charitable Foundation ($80,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $369,791 in grants to KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION?
- Shunpike Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $80,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOWAUTISM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 16 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