New York · Nonprofit
AVAAZ FOUNDATION
AVAAZ FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,560 to it, the largest being Amazon Watch Inc ($8,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $25M
What Avaaz Foundation does
Mission
Our democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. By engaging with avaaz, members are rapidly alerted to urgent global issues and opportunities to achieve change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oglobal community engagementin 2024, avaaz mobilized its global membership of nearly 70 million individuals to engage in advocacy on matters of public interest. Activities included the organization of global campaigns addressing critical social and political issues, facilitated by actions such as petition signatures and deliveries, direct communications with political leaders and policymakers, and financial contributions in support of campaign efforts.european union elections civic engagement campaignin the context of the 2024 european union elections, avaaz conducted a continent-wide civic engagement and advocacy initiative. The campaign involved targeted voter outreach communications reaching millions of individuals, the coordination of public awareness activities in strategic urban centers, including madrid and brussels, and advocacy efforts incorporating testimony and participation from survivors of anti-democratic political violence.community mobilization for peace and justice in middle east this initiative aimed to support peace efforts related to conflict in the middle east. The project focused on mobilization citizens voices to push for lasting peace in…
$17,487,537 spentof which $3,476,573 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,487,537.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $26M (+44%).
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.
99% of AVAAZ FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Wander
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $380.
From the IRS filings of AVAAZ FOUNDATION’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
AVAAZ FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 AVAAZ FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
AVAAZ FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AVAAZ FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AVAAZ FOUNDATION
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVAAZ FOUNDATION: 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 AVAAZ FOUNDATION?
- AVAAZ FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,560 to it, the largest being Amazon Watch Inc ($8,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AVAAZ FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,560 in grants to AVAAZ FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVAAZ FOUNDATION?
- Amazon Watch Inc is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVAAZ FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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