Public Charity

ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH

ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH is a Public Charity headquartered in ARLINGTON, VA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $2.1M revenue, $2.6M expenses, $3.4M total assets. 84 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $2.2M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 542062167 ARLINGTON, VA Autism Research NTEE: H84 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$2.1M
Total Expenses$2.6M
Total Assets$3.4M
Grant Records84
Funding Total$2.2M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

TO FUND RESEARCH AND EDUCATE INDIVIDUALS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT AUTISM BY PROVIDING EVIDENCE-BASED INFORMATION DRAWN FROM RESEARCH IN VARIOUS FORMS AND FORUMS: WEBINARS, OUTREACH, PRINTED MATERIALS, WEBSITE, ELECTRONIC FORUMS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND A MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER.

Where $100 goes at Organization for Autism Research

How Organization for Autism Research divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$79 Programs the work itself
$6 Management running the organization
$15 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $79 for programs

$42
Information
53% of program spending
$21
Research
27% of program spending
$16
Education
20% of program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Brendan Hughes
DIRECTOR Cathy Schwallie Farmer
DIRECTOR Christopher Demay
DIRECTOR Deborah Hammer
DIRECTOR Gregory Smith
CHAIRMAN James M Sack

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$1,916,479 62 grants
Health & Medicine
$274,840 15 grants
Education
$35,000 1 grant
Unspecified
$18,825 2 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $2.1M $2.6M $3.4M
2024 $2.3M $2.5M $3.9M
2023 $2.8M $2.2M $4.1M
2022 $2.3M $1.8M $3.6M
2021 $1.7M $1.3M $3.3M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $1.7M to $2.1M (+25%), with total assets most recently reported at $3.4M.

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