Helping Adults with Autism Perform and Excel Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811709197
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Weston, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7325867367
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Autism Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,138
- Expenses
- $40,697
- Assets
- $548,280
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lawrence Rothman (Chief Executive Officer)
- Connie Alden (President)
- Maria Jacobo (Senior Vice President)
- James Foley (Vice President Business Development/Growth)
People named in this filing
- Lawrence Rothman (Chief Executive Officer)
- Connie Alden (President)
- Richard Bentley (Chief Financial Officer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
HAAPE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to empowering adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through specialized training, education, and career development. The mission of HAAPE is to build autism workforce ecosystems that facilitate meaningful, sustainable employment for neurodivergent individuals. Through targeted community outreach, HAAPE fosters autism-friendly businesses, municipalities, and organizations while scaling its ecosystem models nationwide to maximize long-term independence and societal inclusion.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supported the establishment and ecosystem integration of the Aspiritech Academy. Seed funding of $25,000 enabled the full curriculum design and launch of a 10-week Cybersecurity Academy for autistic adults. The pilot cohort achieved a 95% first-attempt certification pass rate and 100% job placement, scaling to serve 75 students in 2026 with over 100 projected certifications by year-end. An additional $2,000 supported the development and maintenance of the Aspiritech Academy database within the "HAAPE Hub" -- a shared digital infrastructure connecting operating partners, employers, and neurodivergent jobseekers in a centralized, cross-program job placement network.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.8%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.47; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.