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AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION

EIN 26-4522309 SCARSDALE, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,579,702
Expenses 2024
$1,457,862

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G84
Classification
2000
Street
3 CONTINENTAL RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE OTO SUPPORT AUTISM RESEARCH BY PROVIDING FUNDING AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO SCIENTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCTING, FACILITATING, PUBLICIZING AND DISSEMINATING AUTISM RESEARCH. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT AUTISM TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND SERVES TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY AUTISM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORT AUTISM RESEARCH AND PROVIDE FUNDING TO SCIENTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCTING AUTISM RESEARCH; EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND ABOUT ADVANCES IN AUTISM RESEARCH; SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE DISORDER.

  • IN 2024, THE AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION CONTINUED ITS MISSION TO FUND HIGH IMPACT AUTISM RESEARCH BY FUNDING 16 NEW GRANTS TO STUDY THE CAUSES OF AUTISM AND DEVELOP AUTISM TREATMENTS. THIS INCLUDED DOUBLING THE NUMBER OF PROFOUND AUTISM PILOT GRANTS. WE ALSO RECRUITED THE FIRST 25 FAMILIES TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR NEXT GEN SIBS PROJECT, WHICH STUDIES AUTISM RECURRENCE RISK IN THE CHILDREN OF UNAFFECTED SIBLINGS. OUR STAKEHOLDER EDUCATION ACTIVITIES INCLUDED OUR 11TH ANNUAL DAY OF LEARNING, WHICH BROUGHT FAMILIES AND SCIENTISTS TOGETHER TO DISCUSS AUTISM CLINICAL TRIAL READINESS. WE ALSO DEVELOPED AND HOSTED A NEW SPECIAL INTEREST WEBCAST SERIES FOCUSED ON MANAGING SEVERE, INTENSE AND CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS IN PEOPLE WITH AUTISM. WE CONTINUED HOSTING OUR WEEKLY PODCAST WHICH TRANSLATES AUTISM SCIENCE INTO CLEAR, ACTIONABLE INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES. WE LAUNCHED A NEW, NATIONAL ONLINE SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP OFFERING PROFESSIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING TO THIS UNDERSERVED GROUP. WE WORKED HARD TO ENSURE THAT THE AUTISM CARES ACT (WHICH PROVIDES FUNDS TO NIH FOR AUTISM RESEARCH) WAS REAUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS AND THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE LAW SPECIFICALLY INCLUDED PROFOUND AUTISM RESEARCH. WE SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR A NEW "PROFOUND AUTISM" TRACK AT THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING FOR AUTISM RESEARCH AND WE EXPANDED THE ALLIANCE FOR GENETIC ETIOLOGIES IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND AUTISM (AGENDA), WHICH WE RUN, TO NOW INCLUDE 448 PATIENT ADVOCACY GROUPS.

    Expenses $1,061,367 · Grants $455,482

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alison Singer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 5 related

  • Jonah Zimiles

    CHAIR OF BOARD (FROM JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Badesch

    CHAIR OF BOARD (THRU MAY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bryan Harkins

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lucy Hatchell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joseph Joyce

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Offit

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alycia Halladay Ross

    CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $222,533
    From this org
    $215,008
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,525
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,008
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,525
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $222,533

  • Casey Gold-Casey

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $116,235
    From this org
    $113,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,835
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,579,702
    Expenses
    $1,457,862
    Contributions
    $2,920,620
    Grants paid
    $455,482
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,231,621
    Expenses
    $1,254,554
    Contributions
    $1,528,546
    Grants paid
    $301,347
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,210,742
    Expenses
    $1,666,959
    Contributions
    $1,571,449
    Grants paid
    $786,070

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,318,852
    Expenses
    $697,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,178,684

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $995,751
    Expenses
    $664,430
    Assets (EOY)
    $541,917

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $978,372
    Expenses
    $936,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $409,905

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $995,847
    Expenses
    $1,042,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $353,014

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $966,184
    Expenses
    $1,689,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $661,150

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION CANADA

    SUPPORT AUTISM RESEARCH · CA · controlled entity

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.