Grant A Gift Autism Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800350583
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7029989505
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,927,995
- Expenses
- $6,471,753
- Assets
- $9,105,600
- Liabilities
- $972,583
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Hager (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Hager (President & CEO): $184,253 total reported compensation
- Eric Hill (Director of Finance): $151,215 total reported compensation
- Joshua Harrold (Pediatric Nurse Practitioner): $150,499 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grant a Gift Autism Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization providing comprehensive clinical services, resources, education, research, and advocacy for individuals and families living with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions. Grant-A-Gift Autism Foundation took over the Ackerman Autism Center operations from UNLV Health effective June 28, 2021. The Foundation created a wholly-owned, single-member LLC to continue to provide clinical treatment services to its patients.
What it reported doing in 2024
Group Social Treatment Service Programs include BUDS, TeenBUDS, and the Daily Living Skills Program. These programs focus on Building Up and Developing Social play life skills for children in different age brackets from 6-18 years old. Children are given the opportunity to gain much-needed skills and learn how to interact with peers in a nurturing environment, ultimately creating future success in relationships, the workplace, and the community.Vocational Programming - Programs include the TeenWORKS Community and Internships. Occupational Readiness, Knowledge, and Skills Programs consist of community-based vocational/life-prep transition programs, serving teenagers to young adults in their twenties on the autism spectrum, or with other neurodevelopmental conditions. Along with gaining a comprehensive set of job readiness skills across multiple settings, participants have the potential to gain social and behavioral skills across multiple settings, participants have the potential to gain social and behavioral skills required for a successful transition into paid working positions and other areas of adulthood. Quarterly reports focus on tracking individualized progress throughout the program by their assigned therapist.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.5%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $36.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.5% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 27 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $725K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.