Texas · Nonprofit
THRIVE WITH AUTISM
THRIVE WITH AUTISM (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,340,257 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($950,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Thrive With Autism does
Mission
To cultivate a high quality, innovative environment for individuals with autism that provides access to services needed to empower each individual to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Thrive center for success is a newly approved, autismfocused charter school that is located in montgomery county, texas. Thrive incorporates applied behavior analysis and academics into one setting. The geographic area to be served includes the following isds: conroe, klein, magnolia, montgomery, spring, tomball, and waller. In its second year, thrive will accept students in k through 6th grade, with plans to add a grade level each year up through 12th grade.
$5,035,799 spent$2,090,495 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,035,799.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $724k to $4.7M (+543%).
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: 2023 50% · 2024 41% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of THRIVE WITH AUTISM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Dr Ann Ziker
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $140 → $1.2M.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $65k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Thrive With Autism Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THRIVE WITH AUTISM raised.
From the IRS filings of THRIVE WITH AUTISM’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
THRIVE WITH AUTISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 THRIVE WITH AUTISM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 38% · 2023 60% — 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
80% of THRIVE WITH AUTISM's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 63% 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
66% of THRIVE WITH AUTISM's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $951k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THRIVE WITH AUTISM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THRIVE WITH AUTISM
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Thrive With Autism Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THRIVE WITH AUTISM: 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 THRIVE WITH AUTISM?
- THRIVE WITH AUTISM (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,340,257 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($950,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THRIVE WITH AUTISM have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,340,257 in grants to THRIVE WITH AUTISM, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THRIVE WITH AUTISM?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THRIVE WITH AUTISM 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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