Washington · Nonprofit
Washington Autism Alliance
Washington Autism Alliance (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,060,700 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($253,594). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $729k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $772k
What Washington Autism Alliance does
Mission
Waa expands access to healthcare education and services for people with autism and other intellecutal and developmental disabilities in washington state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health law legal advocacy - waas health law program provides individual and systemic reform legal advocaty to help individuals with autism spectrum disorder asd and other developmental disabilities and their families gain access to medically necessary healthcare treatment and services. These legal services include representation in public and private insurance administrative and court appeals of denials terminations or reductions of medically necessary services and treatment and other access.
$115,427 spent29% of program spendingEducation legal advocacy - along with our free legal clinic 1:1 coaching by an attorney or senior legal assistant conflict resolution and legal representation in education disputes and blueprints to special education training workshops to help families navigate the iep system waas special education law library offers tools to help families advocate for the special education accomodations their child needs. In addition we help identify services and support working with care providers and other agencies to ensure children have access to the educational support they need regardless of economic language or cultural barriers. Our programs and community groups work to ensure that people with autism spectrum disorder asd and related intellectual and developmental disabilities idd have every opportunity to thrive and be productive through workshops social and recreational activities. Waa offers blueprints to special education training workshops that provide practical information about everything from regulations governing insurance and educational benefits to how to enhance parental relationships with their child. This workshop is presented by special education attorneys who explain how…
$113,048 spent$14,524 earned by the program29% of program spendingCommunity engagement - waas community engagement program plans directs or coordinates outreach training enrichment and civic engagement opportunities for clients throughout washington state.
$168,160 spent42% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $396,635.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $904k (−31%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 49% · 2019 52% · 2020 4% · 2021 41% · 2022 26% · 2023 34% · 2024 9% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Washington Autism Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Arzu Forough
President CEO
Board chair
Larry Blasko
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $5k → $183k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Washington Autism Alliance’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
Washington Autism Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 Washington Autism Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 65% · 2021 32% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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
56% of Washington Autism Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
71% of Washington Autism Alliance'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 $311k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $749k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Washington Autism Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Washington Autism Alliance
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Washington Autism Alliance?
- Washington Autism Alliance (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,060,700 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($253,594). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Washington Autism Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,060,700 in grants to Washington Autism Alliance, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Washington Autism Alliance?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $253,594 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Washington Autism Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing