Arizona · Nonprofit
NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER
NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,048,500 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $693k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $-739881
What Neurodiversity Education Research Center does
Mission
The mission of the Neurodiversity Education Research Center is to equip and prepare students for an emerging 21st century global scientific workforce. We will accomplish our mission through research-based teaching and learning strategies high-performance standards and sensory integration including behavioral,speech and occupational support. Nerc will work toward our beleif and vision that neurodiverse indivdiuals with autism can become scientists. We will acheive our vision for neurodiverse children and adults by providing opportunities for academic physical and social-emotional growth through teaching and learning science technology engineering and mathematics and supporting educators and employers in helping them be successful.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Neurodiversity Education Research Center nerc operates a stem school in phoenix az for neurodivergent students aiming to enhance education and career opportunities for those with diverse learning styles. Nerc focuses on boosting neurdiverse students success in classrooms and stem fields by offering technical support to educators and employers.
$575,555 spent$636,051 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $575,555.
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 2021 to 2022, from $35k to $226k (+536%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 14% · 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Kenneth Mims
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $25k.
2 of 6 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 NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH 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
NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 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
NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH 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 NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER?
- NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,048,500 to it, the largest being THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,048,500 in grants to NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER?
- THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEURODIVERSITY EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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