Arizona · Nonprofit
TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM
TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,816 to it, the largest being Roy P Drachman Foundation ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Tucson Alliance for Autism does
Mission
To promote community awareness and provide diagnostic and therapeutic services for individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (asd); to educate and support professionals and families on asd-related issues; to support and provide resources for families; to stimulate research and represent the best interests of the autism community in tucson and its surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Social thinking/social communication group therapysocial thinking/social communication groups address how one builds their ability to engage and negotiate the social interactions essential in everyday life. Meetings which are facilitated by licensed, certified professionals help participants explore/understand perspective taking (the ability to understand another person's point of view) as well as developing strategies to address breakdowns in communication.middle school, high school and young adult groups explore specific topics that include, but are not limited to, the integration of verbal and non-verbal cues, problem solving techniques, decision making skills and safety awareness.elementary school groups focus on social thinking, social reciprocity, emotional regulation, developing skills for making and keeping friends as well as recognizing safety concerns.
$13,037 spent34% of program spendingComprehensive autism evaluationsTucson Alliance for Autism (tafa) provides gold standard assessment of autism spectrum disorder (asd). The evaluation procedure includes the autism diagnostic observation schedule: second edition. The ados-2 as an evaluation tool has the highest sensitivity and specificity to an asd diagnosis when administered by trained and reliable professionals according to goldstein & azonoff 2018, current experts in the field. This is a standardized instrument aligned with diagnostic criteria set by american psychiatric association and an interactive assessment in which the evaluator works directly with the client. The autism diagnostic interview-revised is another tool used by the tafa evaluation team critical to a comprehensive evaluation of asd. This interview tool, also aligned with diagnostic criteria set by the american psychiatric association, is a comprehensive caregiver interview targeting current and past behaviors characteristic of asd. Goldstein and azonoff emphasize that it is insufficient to allow the caregiver to respond to a list of characteristics of asd as a means of making a diagnosis.
$23,603 spent61% of program spendingIndividual consultationsbehavioral/individual/parent consultations target specific areas of concerns; one to one sessions; individual goal settingeducational consultations include school observation; teacher training; para-professional training; attend and/or participate in school meetings
$2,100 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,740.
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 $76k to $20k (−74%).
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.
40% of TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $160.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR 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
TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 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 TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $816 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
TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM's revenue grew 31% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR 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 Arizona
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR 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 TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM?
- TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,816 to it, the largest being Roy P Drachman Foundation ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,816 in grants to TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM?
- Roy P Drachman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUCSON ALLIANCE FOR AUTISM 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 2017–2024), 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