Tucson Alliance for Autism
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202838597
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5203195857
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,712
- Expenses
- $159,464
- Assets
- $19,633
- Liabilities
- $520
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RON CANALE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KIRSTEN POLIVCHAK (DIRECTOR)
- RON CANALE (PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote community awareness and provide diagnostic and therapeutic services for individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (asd); to educate and support professionals and families on asd-related issues; to support and provide resources for families; to stimulate research and represent the best interests of the autism community in tucson and its surrounding areas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Comprehensive autism evaluationstucson alliance for autism (tafa) provides gold standard assessment of autism spectrum disorder (asd). The evaluation procedure includes the autism diagnostic observation schedule: second edition. The ados-2 as an evaluation tool has the highest sensitivity and specificity to an asd diagnosis when administered by trained and reliable professionals according to goldstein & azonoff 2018, current experts in the field. This is a standardized instrument aligned with diagnostic criteria set by american psychiatric association and an interactive assessment in which the evaluator works directly with the client. The autism diagnostic interview-revised is another tool used by the tafa evaluation team critical to a comprehensive evaluation of asd. This interview tool, also aligned with diagnostic criteria set by the american psychiatric association, is a comprehensive caregiver interview targeting current and past behaviors characteristic of asd. Goldstein and azonoff emphasize that it is insufficient to allow the caregiver to respond to a list of characteristics of asd as a means of making a diagnosis.
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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37% of revenue deployed · 24.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.