Texas · Nonprofit
AVANCE INC
AVANCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,299,795 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,008,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Avance Inc does
Mission
Avance creates pathways to economic mobility for predominately latino families through high quality, culturally responsive, two-generation programming that ensures school-readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build social and economic capital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early head start and head start - comprehensive programs supporting expectant mothers and children ages six weeks to five years old. Rich learning experiences, designed to help children developmentally, socially, emotionally, and physically, contribute to a child's readiness for school and beyond.
$12,137,553 spent78% of program spendingQuality child care matters provides home-based childcare providers with training and support to ensure they are following licensing standards, they have appropriate policies and processes in place, and that they are implementing best practices in child development and early childhood learning.
$1,088,982 spent7% of program spendingAvance parent-child education program (pcep) teaches parents how to become their child's first teacher and how to ensure that the home is the first classroom. Pcep has been implemented with thousands of the hardest-to-reach families and children for the past 52 years and has shown a great impact on parents and children. Parents who participate in pcep experience an increase in knowledge of early child development and improve parenting skills.
$1,957,160 spent$113,267 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$374,396 spentof which $899,035 as grants$661,617 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,558,091.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.3M to $12M (+261%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 86% · 2018 235% · 2019 81% · 2020 82% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 56% · 2024 78% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of AVANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Dr Teresa Granillo
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Dr Luzelma Canales
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $384k → $9.7M.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Texas Women's Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AVANCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AVANCE 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
AVANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 AVANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 97% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 81% · 2022 60% · 2023 72% — 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 AVANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
65% of AVANCE 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 $6.3M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AVANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AVANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $296.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$296.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AVANCE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Avance - San Antonio · exempt
- Avance - Houston · exempt
- Avance - Dallas · exempt
- Avance - Austin · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVANCE 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 AVANCE INC?
- AVANCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,299,795 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,008,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AVANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $18,299,795 in grants to AVANCE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVANCE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,008,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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