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ADVOCACY INC

ADVOCACY INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,859 to it, the largest being SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES ($1,468,781). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$155k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$125k
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Advocacy Inc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide the highest level of advocacy and rights protection for client issues concerning long-term care, quality of life and mental health facilities placement guidelines and procedures.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The patients' rights advocate is a state mandated program charged with empowering and assisting recipients of mental health services to excercise their civil rights and human rights.

    $163,488 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $163,488.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($349k) Expenses 100 ($342k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2018 Revenue 119 ($414k) Expenses 117 ($400k) Net assets 112 ($132k)2019 Revenue 138 ($481k) Expenses 128 ($439k) Net assets 147 ($174k)2020 Revenue 146 ($511k) Expenses 137 ($469k) Net assets 183 ($217k)2021 Revenue 144 ($501k) Expenses 143 ($488k) Net assets 194 ($230k)2022 Revenue 130 ($455k) Expenses 144 ($492k) Net assets 162 ($192k)2023 Revenue 161 ($560k) Expenses 149 ($511k) Net assets 203 ($241k)2024 Revenue 110 ($382k) Expenses 135 ($463k) Net assets 135 ($160k)2025 Revenue 44 ($155k) Expenses 55 ($190k) Net assets 106 ($125k)
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Revenue (44)Expenses (55)Net assets (106)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $268k to $179k (−33%).

$128k
$144k
$200k
$266k
$252k
$223k
$268k
$179k
$132k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 98% · 2021 38% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
$14k
’18
$42k
’19
$42k
’20
$13k
’21
−$38k
’22
$49k
’23
−$81k
’24
−$35k
’25
2.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Corey F Azevedo

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $277k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ADVOCACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVOCACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCACY INC.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 88% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ADVOCACY INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ADVOCACY INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCACY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADVOCACY INC?
ADVOCACY INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,859 to it, the largest being SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES ($1,468,781). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVOCACY INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,496,859 in grants to ADVOCACY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVOCACY INC?
SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,468,781 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVOCACY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing