Published: 2026
Fiscal Year Covered: January 1 to December 31, 2025
Stimpunks is a disabled and neurodivergent-led mutual aid and access infrastructure project. We build public resources, tools, and community support that expand dignity, reduce harm, and challenge systems that dehumanize in the name of efficiency, normalcy, and control.
This report summarizes our work in 2025, including governance, financial stewardship, programs delivered, effectiveness measures, fundraising, and accountability practices.
Mission and Core Services
Our Mission
To advance disability justice and neurodiversity affirmation by building accessible infrastructure, open public resources, and mutual aid systems that enable dignity for disabled and neurodivergent people.
Our Values
- Lived experience leads
- Human needs, not special needs
- Design for real life
- Care is infrastructure
- Authenticity is our purest freedom
Vision
A world where difference is expected, access is normal, and people are supported to live authentically.
Core Services in 2025
- Direct mutual aid and care infrastructure support
- Public educational resources (pathways, field guides, encyclopedias)
- Access design tools (Cavendish Space, sensory checklists)
- Community-centered pattern languages and zine walls
- Transparent governance and accountability materials
2025 Highlights
- Expanded Field Guides: Launched and refined practical guides (Coping, Education, Design) grounded in lived experience.
- In Brief Frameworks: Published launch-ready briefs to make complex ideas accessible and actionable.
- Care Infrastructure: Piloted material support for contributors and volunteers, including connectivity and tooling.
- Publishing & Zines: Produced poster- and sticker-ready manifesto content to meet people where they are.
- Community Collaboration: Deepened partnerships with educators, designers, parents, and organizers.
What We Built
- Glossary → “shared language reduces isolation”
- Field Guides → “practical survival tools”
- Zines → “portable access culture”
Glossary
Our glossary is more than a list of definitions. It is a shared language that helps people name what they live and feel before others translate it into jargon. In 2025 we expanded entries that support real-world access work — from Cavendish Space and neurological pluralism to relational pattern languages — so that educators, designers, and community members can speak with precision about difference, harm, and liberation.
Field Guides
Field Guides are our practical toolkits — not abstract theory, but “here’s how to survive and thrive right now” manuals. In 2025, we published and refined guides on coping, education, and design that work under real conditions, grounded in lived experience and plain language. These aren’t polished documents you’re expected to decode; they’re resources you can open and use in the moment.
The Manifesto
Our Manifesto isn’t a slogan — it’s a commitment statement. In 2025 we developed and circulated manifesto content in formats people can actually engage with: posters, stickers, pull quotes, and zines. These pieces make our core values visible, shareable, and memorable — helping people carry Stimpunks principles into their own spaces and conversations.
In Brief
The “In Brief” frameworks translate complex models into short, accessible cores that people can use without long training. In 2025 we published launch-ready briefs for education, design, labor, culture, and systems — each one a packet of usable insight for people who don’t have time for jargon or obfuscation but still need a conceptual compass.
Visual Tools
Words are only one way to communicate. Visual tools — posters, zine walls, sticker sheets, and other graphics — make concepts easy to scan, share, and remember. In 2025 we produced a range of visual artifacts intended for printing, posting, and community use so that access principles, identity language, and pattern frameworks don’t live only in long form, but in the places people actually look.
Map of Monotropic Experiences
Understanding monotropic cognition helps explain why environments built for split attention harm some minds. In 2025 we published the Map of Monotropic Experiences as a resource to help people visualize how interests, attention, and sensory load intersect in autistic and neurodivergent lives — not to pathologize, but to make sense of experience and design more humane spaces.
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
Learning that honors neurodivergence looks different from traditional schooling. In 2025 we launched the Neuroqueer Learning Spaces project to sketch and prototype environments — digital and physical — where autistic, queer, and disabled learners can work, play, and create without forced compliance. These spaces are experiments in dignity, autonomy, and co-designed access.
Cavendish Space
Cavendish Space isn’t a building — it’s a pattern language for environments that support flow, regulation, collaboration, and safety. In 2025 we matured that concept into structured frameworks, subpages, and practical guidance so that organizers and educators can design spaces where dignity is possible, not just where rules are enforced.
Impact (2025)
We measure impact by usefulness, not vanity metrics.
- Resources used by educators, families, and designers to change practice
- Language adopted by teams to name power, access, and harm
- Practical coping tools shared during moments of crisis
- Community members reporting reduced isolation and better self-advocacy
- Academic citations
(Quantitative metrics intentionally de-emphasized; qualitative feedback prioritized.)
Community & Contributors
Stimpunks.org is shaped by contributors who bring lived experience, care, and craft. We credit labor, encourage boundaries, and design participation that respects capacity.
- Writers, editors, and artists
- Educators and designers
- Disabled and neurodivergent community members
Care Infrastructure
We invest in the conditions that make participation possible.
- Connectivity and tooling support for volunteers
- Flexible contribution models
- Clear boundaries around capacity and rest
Care is not overhead. Care is the work.
Governance and Oversight
Stimpunks Foundation is guided by principles of accountability, transparency, and community leadership. Decisions are informed by lived experience and documented publicly whenever possible.
Stimpunks is governed with community-first accountability. Our leadership and oversight practices are designed to uphold dignity, inclusivity, and disabled self-determination.
Board and Leadership:
- An active governing body provides mission oversight and fiduciary responsibility.
- Policies in place include Conflict of Interest, Whistleblower & Concern Reporting, Donor Privacy, and Gift Acceptance.
- We maintain a Community Covenant that outlines prosocial principles and inclusive norms for participation.
Full governance documents can be found at:
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/
Board Oversight:
Our board provides fiduciary responsibility and mission governance. Board members disclose conflicts annually, and the board meets regularly to review finances, policies, and strategic priorities.
“Our board meets quarterly and maintains independence from paid staff. Board members disclose conflicts annually.”
Financial Overview (High-Level)
(Figures summarized for transparency; detailed statements available upon request.)
Revenue Sources
- Individual donations
- Community fundraising
Expense Categories
- Care infrastructure and direct support
- Publishing and design
- Platform and accessibility costs
- Administration and compliance
- Salaries
In 2025, 65% of our expenses supported program services, reflecting our commitment to direct community benefit and access infrastructure.
Note: We prioritize direct impact and contributor support over growth for growth’s sake.
Financial Stewardship
Stimpunks maintains transparent and responsible financial practices. We publish required disclosures and use BBB-aligned categories to report expenses:
Total Expenses (2025): $120,000
Total Revenue (2025): Approximately $120,000, primarily from individual donors and community fundraising.
| Category | Amount | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Program Services | $78,000 | 65% |
| Administration | $30,000 | 25% |
| Fundraising | $12,000 | 10% |
| Total | $120,000 | 100% |
Program Services includes mutual aid support, publishing open access resources, and building access infrastructure.
Administration includes accounting, governance compliance, and secure operational systems.
Fundraising includes donation platform fees, campaign communications, and stewardship.
Detailed breakdown and policy:
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/expense-policy/
Where the Money Went (2025):
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/where-the-money-went/
Measuring Effectiveness
Stimpunks defines effectiveness differently from traditional charities. Rather than narrow output metrics, we measure impact through:
- Access Built: new tools, resources, and frameworks published publicly
- Harm Reduced: recognition and reduction of harmful design patterns in education and space access
- Mutual Aid Delivered: direct support and grants distributed
- Community Use: adoption of resources by educators, organizers, and individuals
Key Publications and Tools in 2025:
- Systems of Power Pathway — expanded to map structural barriers
- Sensory Checklist Gallery — DIY access tools
- Zine Walls Library — portable declarations for access and dignity
- Relational Pattern Languages — pattern languages for Cavendish Space and community design
Our effectiveness philosophy and policy are documented here:
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/effectiveness/
Impact context and narrative are available here:
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/charting-impact/
Fundraising and Donor Stewardship
Stimpunks raises funds ethically and transparently, grounded in dignity and mutual aid, not pity or deficit narratives. Our Fundraising Manifesto outlines our approach:
2025 Fundraising Highlights:
- Care Infrastructure Fund launched on Givebutter
https://givebutter.com/6XYFbX - Fundraising Field Guide and Goal Stack published
- Clear resource use messaging implemented across donation entry points
Donor Privacy:
We respect donor data and do not sell or share information. Our privacy policy is here:
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/donor-privacy/
Donors may opt out of communications at any time.
Gift Acceptance:
Stimpunks only accepts gifts aligned with mission and community safety:
https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/gift-acceptance/
Transparency and Work in Public
Stimpunks publishes operational logs, priority updates, and changelogs in real time. We believe default-to-open documentation is accountability in action.
- Now Page + Transparency Log:
https://stimpunks.org/now/ - Changelog:
https://stimpunks.org/changelog/
These logs show what we’re building, when, and why — reducing information barriers for community and funders alike.
Looking Ahead (2026 Priorities)
In 2026, Stimpunks will:
- Publish a full Board & Governance document
- Continue refining financial categories and program classifications
- Expand our impact narrative with qualitative case stories
- Strengthen regional resource directories and mutual aid partnerships
- Work toward alignment with ASAN affiliate standards
- Expand care infrastructure sustainably
- Publish additional Field Guides
- Strengthen education and design partnerships
- Continue documenting what works so others can adapt it
How You Can Support This Work
Stimpunks relies on community support to sustain and expand access infrastructure.
- Donate to the Care Infrastructure Fund:
https://givebutter.com/6XYFbX - Share our resources with educators, organizers, and disabled networks
- Contribute to the Field Guide or encyclopedia
Contact and Questions
If you have questions about this report, our finances, governance, or accountability practices, contact:
Stimpunks.org Radical inclusion. Real tools. Lived experience.
Website: https://stimpunks.org
Email: stimpunks@stimpunks.org
Gratitude
To everyone who read, shared, donated, contributed, or simply found language that helped them breathe easier—thank you. This work exists because you do.
Closing Statement
Stimpunks builds at the edges — where lived experience meets real design. This report is our public commitment to transparency, dignity, and shared stewardship. We steward resources in community, for community.
**Access is infrastructure.
Dignity is not optional.
Accountability is care.**
