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SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC

SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,431 to it, the largest being UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION ($27,400). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$177k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$59k
Net assets
$68k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Sounds of Autism Inc does

Mission

Educate families & public about autism

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provided survival skill programs to community & at risk families: supporting early intervention, mental & behavioral health, crisis intervention and life/job skill training,

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  2. Built larger audience virtually: from at risk autism families, community & leaders. Provided training sessions, virtual & mobile, to support awareness, education, support solutions

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Done through youtube digital library podcast shows, music, media, social media & marketing campaigns & our newest initiative workforce readiness for adults with autism.

    $110,718 spentof which $110,718 as grants
    100% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $110,718.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2021 Revenue 147 ($106k) Expenses 119 ($84k) Net assets 695 ($25k)2022 Revenue 170 ($122k) Expenses 173 ($123k) Net assets 671 ($24k)2023 Revenue 156 ($113k) Expenses 133 ($94k) Net assets 1180 ($42k)2024 Revenue 246 ($177k) Expenses 212 ($151k) Net assets 1913 ($68k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (246)Expenses (212)Net assets (1913)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 $42k to $68k (+62%).

$4k
$25k
$24k
$42k
$68k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$876
’20
$21k
’21
−$853
’22
$18k
’23
$26k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Christie Barrientos

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC’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

SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

33% 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 SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC.

46%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 67% — 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

20% of SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states in all.

NJ
CA
NE
AZ

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC?
SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC (Arizona) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,431 to it, the largest being UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION ($27,400). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $59,431 in grants to SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC?
UNION PACIFIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUNDS OF AUTISM INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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