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ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH INC

EIN 54-2062167 ARLINGTON, VA

Revenue 2023
$2,323,210
Expenses 2023
$2,467,346

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H84
Classification
1000
Street
2111 WILSON BLVD STE 401

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 · 2023

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • INFORMATION: INFORMED AND PROVIDED EVIDENCE-BASED RESOURCES FOR PARENTS, FAMILIES, EDUCATORS, AND OTHER CONSUMERS IN THE AUTISM COMMUNITY. THE MAJOR COMPONENTS ARE: OAR'S WEB SITE, WWW.RESEARCHAUTISM.ORG; THE OARACLE, OAR'S MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER; THE "LIFE JOURNEY THROUGH AUTISM" SERIES, CONSISTING OF NINE COMMUNITY-FRIENDLY AUTISM RESOURCE GUIDES; THE MILITARY FAMILIES INITIATIVE, OPERATION AUTISM, WWW.OPERATIONAUTISM.ORG; THE "AUTISM IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE; AND HIRE AUTISM ADULT EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $946,746 · Grants $51,419 · Revenue $4,690

  • RESEARCH: RESEARCH ENCOMPASSED THE WORK OF OAR'S SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL AS IT PERTAINS TO THE DIRECTION AND SELECTION OF OAR-FUNDED RESEARCH STUDIES, FUNDING RESEARCH AND GENERAL OVERSIGHT OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAM.

    Expenses $644,342 · Grants $292,986

  • EDUCATION: FORMAL STRUCTURED EDUCATIONAL FORUMS AND FORMATS, SUCH AS CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS ON A SPECIFIC TOPIC OR THEME AND WEB-BASED OR PRINTED MATERIALS DESIGNED ALONG THE SAME LINES, AND COLLEGE/VOCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR AUTISTIC INDIVIDUALS. DURING THIS FISCAL YEAR, OAR CONTINUED ITS WEBINAR PROGRAM TO PROVIDE AUTISM RESEARCH AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS PRESENTING ON TOPICS OF HIGH INTEREST TO THE AUTISM COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $328,851 · Grants $170,600

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KRISTEN ESSEX

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $138,000
    From this org
    $135,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,000
    Hours/week
    60

  • JAMES M SACK

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LORI LAPIN JONES

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIE JOHNSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LIZ CAVALIERE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERTO DATORRE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM DONLON

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 6/14/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER GERHARDT

    CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA HUSSMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREGORY SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHY SCHWALLIE FARMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN SHORE

    COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSEPH THOMAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL KOTOWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER DEMAY

    DIRECTOR (FROM 5/2/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIMBERLY HA

    SR. DIRECTOR, RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $114,000
    From this org
    $111,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,000
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,323,210
    Expenses
    $2,467,346
    Contributions
    $2,412,324
    Grants paid
    $515,005
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,819,297
    Expenses
    $2,188,510
    Contributions
    $3,053,606
    Grants paid
    $563,658

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
    $2,296,713
    Expenses
    $1,786,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,594,970

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,694,880
    Expenses
    $1,339,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,295,138

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,647,145
    Expenses
    $1,607,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,017,332

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,650,876
    Expenses
    $1,726,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,092,311

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,572,742
    Expenses
    $1,444,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,118,579

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,572,742
    Expenses
    $1,444,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,118,579

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,466,141
    Expenses
    $1,326,919
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,007,225

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,526,237
    Expenses
    $1,149,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,873,863

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,580,035
    Expenses
    $1,155,916
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,550,736

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

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Grants received

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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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.