The nonprofit professionals who consult us tell us we’re unique. They tell us we’re tearing down walls in philanthropy.
Your donations directly assist some of the most marginalized people in our society. We handle the vetting. We handle the legal and tax compliance.
Your donations help us serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.
Here’s our pitch deck.
Pitch Deck
MUTUAL AID AND HUMAN- CENTERED LEARNING FOR NEURODIVERGENT AND DISABLED PEOPLE
Table of Contents
01 Mission Statement
02 The Truth
03 The Help
04 Learning Space
05 Open Research
06 Creator Grants
07 Mutual Aid
08 Moment of Obligation
09 The Team
10 The Ask
Mission Statement
We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people.
Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, creator grants, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. We presume competence, and we believe in self-determination.
The Truth
One in four U.S. adults have a disability. However, our community receives only 2% of US grant funding, and only 19% of us are employed. We can’t just let that be the truth. We have to challenge the norm and change the narrative around people who are neurodivergent or disabled.
Stimpunks Foundation seeks to do just that with our four pillars.
The Help
Through Stimpunks Foundation, we offer:
Learning Space: We create anti-ableist space for human-centered learning.
Open Research: We bring voice into empirical constructs and translate voice into academic comprehension.
Creator Grants: We pay creators to create. We fund art, advocacy, research, and more. We buy space to breathe and create.
Mutual Aid: Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society. We provide real help against the onslaught through mutual aid.
Learning Space
Stimpunks Learning Space offers community and space for passion-based, human-centered learning with purpose. Our learners collaborate on distributed, multi-age, cross-disciplinary teams with a neurodiverse array of creatives doing work that impacts community. Via equity, access, empathy, and inclusivity, we create anti-ableist space compatible with neurodiversity, the social model of disability, and all types of bodyminds. We create space for the neurodivergent and disabled people most ill-served by “empty pedagogy, behaviorism, and the rejection of equity“.
Our white rabbit (also known as Space Bunny) symbolises playfulness, curiosity, wonder, hope and the possibility of expanding learning potential.
Open Research
Our emancipatory research efforts focus on the sweet spot of digital sociology, neurodiversity studies, disability studies, and syncretism, in the open. We improve the scientific
experience for the disabled and the
neurodivergent by restoring the humanities. We bring voice into empirical constructs and translate voice into academic comprehension.
Creator Grants
We pay creators to create. We buy space to breathe and make. Creativity is a vital force that drives positive change in society. We provide financial support to creators across various fields, including art, advocacy, research, and beyond. We aim to enable creators to fully immerse themselves in their work. We recognize the importance of investing in the creative process and the impact it can have on communities and individuals.
Mutual Aid
According to the Human Rights Funders Network in 2021, “One
in seven persons in the world has a disability. Yet, grants for persons with disabilities constitute just 2% of all human rights funding.” Further, accessing these grant funds is challenging and many application processes present barriers to entry for
individuals who need to apply for assistance.
We believe that direct support to individuals is the most effective approach to alleviating the barriers and challenges that prevent neurodivergent and disabled people from thriving in neurotypical and ableist environments. Our application
process is simple and our direct payments have the potential to transform how neurodivergent and disabled people access philanthropic capital.
Our Moment of Obligation
Stimpunks was created to forge the way for educational inclusion and to give our community the means to thrive. We as a disabled and neurodivergent run organization had to roll our own education, because even the “all means all” of public education failed to include us and those we serve. We had to create our own care systems, because “we realized that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us.” “Responsibility for the survival of entire communities lies with us.”
The Team
Inna Boren
Ryan Boren
Chelsea Adams
Norah Hobbs
The Ask
Help us serve the unserved with a
donation. Stimpunks is a 501(c)3
organization, and your donation is tax
deductible. You will be emailed an IRS compliant letter at the time of donation and a year-end-summary of your donations at the end of the year. Keep these letters for filing your taxes.
We honor “The Donor Bill of Rights“.
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One in seven persons in the world has a disability. Yet, grants for persons with disabilities constitute just 2% of all human rights funding.
Human Rights Funders Network – Reversing the trend: The time is now to fund disability rights
Why donate to us? The nonprofit professionals who consult us tell us we’re unique. They tell us we’re tearing down walls in philanthropy…
1. Your money goes directly to people, not bureaucracy
Stimpunks practices mutual aid, not charity theater. Donations are moved quickly and with low barriers to neurodivergent and disabled people who need relief now—for rent, food, care, survival. This prevents crises before they become emergencies, which is both more humane and more effective than downstream interventions.
Impact: Immediate stabilization, reduced stress, fewer crisis escalations.
2. Stimpunks fixes conditions, not people
Most systems are built around compliance: behave correctly, mask well, suffer quietly, and maybe you’ll get help. Stimpunks rejects that model entirely. It invests in access, psychological safety, and autonomy, which research and lived experience both show lead to better long-term outcomes.
Your donation supports:
- Communication access
- Sensory and space access
- Education and healthcare access
- Environments where people don’t have to erase themselves to survive
3. It’s led by the people most affected
Stimpunks is neurodivergent- and disabled-led. That means:
- No guessing what people need
- No extractive storytelling
- No top-down “solutions” that create harm
Lived experience isn’t a side note here—it’s the operating system.
Result: Higher relevance, higher trust, higher impact per dollar.
4. It prevents harm instead of managing fallout
Compliance-based therapies, inaccessible systems, and deficit narratives cost people their health, education, jobs, and lives. Stimpunks intervenes upstream by:
- Publishing open, neuroaffirming learning pathways
- Challenging harmful practices
- Giving families, educators, and professionals better tools
Prevention is cheaper, kinder, and more effective than repair.
5. Your donation creates compounding impact
Stimpunks doesn’t just help individuals—it builds shared infrastructure:
- Free learning resources used globally
- Language and frameworks that change how people think and act
- Community knowledge that outlives any single grant
One donation helps one person and strengthens the ecosystem that supports thousands more.
6. This is accountability without gatekeeping
Stimpunks operates with transparency, low overhead, and a clear ethical spine. There’s no pressure to sanitize stories or soften the truth to appease funders. Donations support honest work rooted in dignity, not optics.
7. Because people shouldn’t have to mask to deserve care
At the deepest level, donating to Stimpunks is a values decision.
It says:
- People are not broken
- Difference is not a defect
- Care should never be conditional on conformity
Authenticity is our purest freedom—and freedom requires resources.
Bottom line
If you want your money to:
- Reach people fast
- Reduce harm instead of rebranding it
- Support work led by those who live it
- Build something real, not polite
Donate to Stimpunks.org.
Your donations help us serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.
Double your impact. Many employers match donations through Benevity and similar platforms.
Accountability Is Care
We don’t do mystery charity. We work in public, publish our policies, and show where the money goes — because trust is part of access.
- Accountability & Transparency Hub
- Where the Money Went (2025)
- Program/Admin/Fundraising Expense Policy
- Annual Reports
- Donor Privacy Policy
- Frequently Requested Information
Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Either way, thank you for building access with us.
