New York · Nonprofit
ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC
ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,973,707 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($1,348,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Advocacy Institute Inc does
Mission
Advocacy institute supports social justice organizations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advocacy institute provides advocates and organizers across new york state with the tools to fight for policy change more effectively, with an emphasis on communities that have historically been shut out of decision-making, including communities of color, immigrants, low-income people, and lgbtq+ people. Programs include dynamic trainings on the legislative process, interactive tools that map out power relationships in state and local government, one-on-one strategic consulting, an in-depth leadership development program for emerging leaders, peer convenings learning and networking, and trainings for funders and donors on how best to resource advocacy and organizing. Through its programming, advocacy institute strengthens new york's social justice ecosystem to win transformative legislative reforms.
$1,195,196 spent$171,791 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,195,196.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $2.1M to $2.0M (−5%).
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.
89% of ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Elz Jones Board V-Chair
(thru dec 2024); board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $90k → $2.2M.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 INSTITUTE 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 INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 58% · 2021 55% · 2022 29% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCACY INSTITUTE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCACY INSTITUTE 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 INSTITUTE INC?
- ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,973,707 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($1,348,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,973,707 in grants to ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC?
- TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $1,348,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing