North Carolina · Nonprofit
LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER
LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,155 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($100,061). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Lets Talk About It - the Autism Center does
Mission
Let's Talk About It- The Autism Center (LTAI - TAC) is a non-profit organization focusing on autism advocacy, education, and support. We offer IEP support, advocacy, behavioral interventions, sensory management support, and corporate training to promote the inclusion of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Additionally, we facilitate workshops and support groups as we strive to build a sense of community among our caregivers and their loved ones with ASD.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Caring for Caregivers-We assist families with the implementation of success strategies and systems ensuring they are aware of their options and how to best advocate for their loved one with ASD.
$12,208 spentof which $31,808 as grants38% of program spendingCommunities United-Through private and public partnerships, we deliver education and training to individuals, employers, schools, daycare centers, and public-facing professionals to reduce misconceptions related to ASD and equip workshop attendees with the skills required to effectively engage with and/or support individuals with autism.
$19,533 spentof which $39,760 as grants62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,741.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $56k (+801%).
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.
94% of LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
La Becky Roe
CEO
Board chair
Jennifer Briggs
Director of Education and Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14 → $14k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER’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
LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94 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.
Against its field
LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER: 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 LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER?
- LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,155 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($100,061). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,155 in grants to LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LETS TALK ABOUT IT - THE AUTISM CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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