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VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,701,335 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($926,972). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Virginia Institute of Autism Inc does
Mission
The virginia institute of autism is dedicated to helping people overcome the challenges of autism through innovative, evidence-based programs in education, outreach and adult services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Via's james c. Hormel school offers year-round, state-of-the-art, evidence-based educational and clinical programs based on the principles of applied behavior analysis for students ages 2 to 22 years old with autism spectrum disorder (asd) and related disorders. The school's faculty consists of licensed behavior analysts, special education teachers, speech language pathologists, and other health and education professionals who work as an interdisciplinary team to create a highly individualized, comprehensive program to address the educational and clinical needs of each student. The school is licensed by the virginia department of education and accredited by the virginia association of independent specialized education facilities and the commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf).
$16,045,886 spent73% of program spendingThe outpatient behavioral services program provides contemporary, evidence-based, behavioral therapies to address the continuum of needs exhibited by children and adolescents ages 18 months to 21 years old with asd and related disorders. The program employs licensed behavior analysts, clinical psychologists, and speech language pathologists. Depending upon client needs, individual therapy is provided in the home, community, and/or clinic. Outpatient behavioral services include: jump start parent training for newly diagnosed families, early intensive behavior intervention, intensive school-based intervention, and intensive home-based intervention. In addition, the program offers comprehensive outpatient psychological and speech-language diagnostic evaluations and recommendations for the behavioral, educational, and intellectual needs of children and adolescents. The program is licensed by the virginia department of behavioral health & developmental services and accredited by carf.
$2,537,077 spent12% of program spendingVia's adult services program provides adults ages 22 and older with asd a variety of life-long continuing education opportunities and behavioral supports. The academy day program offers a learning environment that promotes self-choice and community involvement. Adult clients choose from a variety of activities to help them develop independent living skills, gain and maintain meaningful employment, and live healthy lifestyles. Adult services also provides behavioral consultation for adults with continuing behavioral challenges. The program is licensed by the virginia department of behavioral health & developmental services and accredited by carf.
$2,643,666 spent12% of program spendingViable ventures is a social impact program designed to create meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with asd by establishing small businesses designed to engage the skills, interests, and abilities of individuals with autism. The program provides personalized job training and ongoing occupational and behavioral supports to individuals with asd so that they can experience the dignity of earning a paycheck. Viable ventures' first enterprise is a candle-making business that crafts and markets candles for local retail and online sales. Harry's house is a contracted service with an individual family to provide support in the home of an adult male with developmental disabilities.
$650,457 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,877,086.
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 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $28M (+89%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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 John Will
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $82k → $424k.
14 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 27% · 2019 50% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
50% of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
61% of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.5M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC?
- VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,701,335 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($926,972). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,701,335 in grants to VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $926,972 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 43 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