Develops communities integrating adults with autism and special abilities through housing, healthcare, education, employment, and culture.
For fiscal year 2024 it reported $7.1M in revenue, $6.1M in expenses, and $14.0M in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2024
Total revenue
$7.1M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$6.1M
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$14.0M
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $965K
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
82%
13%
Program services $0.82 Management & general $0.13 Fundraising $0.05
Program efficiency
82%
of spending reaches programs▼ -2% vs prior filing year
Operating runway
12.1mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate▼ -19% vs prior filing year
Surplus margin
+14%
revenue over expenses, this year▼ -39% vs prior filing year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2024 · Form 990
Revenue
$7.1M
FY2024▲ +8%
$7.2M$3.6M$0
FY2020FY2024
Expenses
$6.1M
FY2024▲ +20%
$6.1M$3.0M$0
FY2020FY2024
Total assets
$18.6M
FY2024▲ +1%
$18.6M$9.3M$0
FY2020FY2024
Total liabilities
$4.6M
FY2024▼ -18%
$6.8M$3.4M$0
FY2020FY2024
Total revenue
$7.1M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$6.1M
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$14.0M
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$965K
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$18.6M
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B82%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 312
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 411
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $5.0M of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2024.
01
Global Leadership Institute
The gli is composed of five centers- maricopa county ida center for education, training and employment; make waves center for community development; colonel harland sanders center for applied research; mulzet center for expression; and the daniel jordan fiddle foundation center for public policy.
$2.2Mprogram expense
02
Apartments
First place apartments comprise 63 studio, one-, two-and four bedroom units- "first homes" -with supportive SERVICES/PROGRAMMING for 67 residents with autism, intellectual AND/OR developmental disabilities.
$2.2Mprogram expense
03
Transition Academy
Clinically operated by our "sister" nonprofit southwest autism research & resource center (sarrc, also co-founded by first place az founder and PRESIDENT/CEO), the transition academy offers the two-year, 32-COURSE residential life skills program, LEARN41NDEPENDENCE, empowering participants to find employment and live more independently.
Denise Resnik’s $320K as Founder, President & CEO
is at the 97th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2025 $1–10M housing nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 7 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Denise Resnik · Reported title FOUNDER, PRESIDENT & CEO · Highest reported compensation $320K · Total expenses $6.1M
5%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $2.9M · Total expenses $6.1M
48%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
82%
—
—
Overhead ratio
13%
—
—
Fundraising cost ratio
7%
—
—
Revenue growth
8%
—
—
Investment management fee ratio
0%
—
—
Legal fee ratio
0%
—
—
Accounting fee ratio
1%
—
—
Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
Want to add your own materials alongside these filings? Claim this org
Sources
Every figure above is drawn from these filings
Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2024IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
Names, privacy, and removal requests More
The names, titles, and compensation shown on this page are reproduced from IRS Form 990 filings, which are public records.
Philanthropy.org does not alter the content of those filings. All information appears exactly as reported by the filing organization for the tax year shown.
We publish only information contained in the public IRS filing — and less than the filing contains. Our profile pages do not display street addresses, telephone numbers, personal email addresses, or other personal contact information, even where the filing includes them.
Many people share the same name. A name shown on this page reflects only what one organization reported in one IRS filing for one tax year. It should not be interpreted as identifying any other individual with the same or a similar name.
If you are no longer affiliated with the organization, your name will generally stop appearing in future IRS filings once the organization no longer reports you. Pages for tax years in which you were reported remain published because those filings remain part of the public record.
Philanthropy.org does not alter or remove IRS filing records. Removing a page from this website would not remove the underlying IRS filing, which remains publicly available from the IRS and other publishers of the same information.
If you believe the IRS filing itself is inaccurate, corrections must be made by the filing organization or the IRS directly.
All figures are derived from public IRS Form 990 filings and are presented without evaluation of any organization. philanthropy.org does not rate, score, or rank organizations, including the peer-cohort and compensation comparisons above.
Sign-in is temporarily unavailable
Leave your email and we’ll let you know when you can finish signing in and follow
the organization.
