Totals
- Total revenue
- $14,738
- Total expenses
- $12,936
- Contributions and grants received
- $13,479
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $1,259
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $54,800
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $54,800
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $10,610
Program services were 82.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
The Autism Society Western New York creates connections empowering everyone in the Autism community with the resources needed to live fully. We provide information and support to individuals with Autism their families and the professionals who work with them.
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Information and Referral Specialist - experienced parent is paid thru a temp agency 10 hours a week to answer phone messages emails approx 750 year send 6 email newsletters a month 950 people on email list update web site and on line calendar. Also updates 15 plus pages of local resources for recreation education support groups agencies and services. Also volunteers additional time . Cost of phone line included.
Expenses $8,500
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Co-sponsored one half day webinar with Parent Network WNY who handled registration and paid webinar expenses from registration fees . Author Brenda Smith Myles presented via zoom Navigating Meltdowns and Difficult Moments - Managing Neurodivergent Needs. We had a good mix of professionals 58 teachers SLPs and OTs who received CEUs and 75 parents. Our share of costs for providing CEUs was $400.
Expenses $400
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Purchased over 150 books on Autism at a 50% discount to give to adults with Autism and families. Books were given out at DD Awareness Day and also given out at an evening event at WNED Channel 17 for parents and children who are neurodiverse. Event co-ordinated by Emilye Watkins NPR disability reporter. Balance of books were mailed out throughout the year to those who called our office. Also developed laminated sheets to introduce Pro-Log-2-Go as a means of communication for non-verbal children and adults.
Expenses $1,710
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Kathleen Eiss
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Kristen Staats Pocobello
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Debbie Walk
SecretaryActing Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Karen Townson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Deb Kroetsch
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 18 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.1
- Source object
- 202503229349201600
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