Texas · Nonprofit
AVDA
AVDA (Texas) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,402,669 to it, the largest being LONE STAR LEGAL AID ($1,340,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Avda does
Mission
Avda's mission is to end family violence by advocating for the safety and self-determination of victims, promoting accountability for abusers, and fostering coordinated community response to abuse.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
In 2022, Avda legal advocacy program provided 6,366 adult and child survivors of domestic and sexual abuse with safety planning, referrals to community resources, and legal relief through the filing and securing of protective orders, divorces, and various child custody cases such as initial custody determinations, modifications, and adoptions. Avda eighteen member team of attorneys and paraglegals provide trauma-informed legal advocacy and crisis support services to victims of domestic and sexual abuse in harris, fort bend, and waller counties through its legal advocacy program. Avda's legal advocacy program is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, such as attorneys, paralegals, advocates, and trauma counselors, who provide the aforementioned critical services.
Battering intervention and prevention program (bipp) - Avda's bipp program is the largest bipp in texas and the first to become acredited. Its nine- person bipp team provides psychoeducational group counseling to those identified as abusive in their intimate relationships. Bipp promotes accountability and change. The clients are largely court-ordered and must attend a minimum of 18 weekly sessions for course completion. Facilitators are licensed mental health professionals. The program has significant victim safety components; groups are held weekly at 18 locations across harris, galveston, fort bend and montogomery counties.
Family violence program (fvp) - Avda's fvp program is comprised of six bilingual client advocates and the program director who provide legal intake, needs assessment, safety, planning, information/referral. Assistance with crime vicitims compensation, crisis intervention and more for survivors of domestic violence. They field calls for assistance, helping to connect survivors with safety and promoting advocacy and service. In 2022, the fvp team provided legal intake at the organization's offices, harris county police dept. Family violence units, houston arear women's center, and the harris county district attorney office.
Community awarness and prevention program (capp) Avda's capp program is comprised of four members responsbile for outreach and education. As part of Avda's mission, the community awareness and prevention program aims to foster a community-wide response to abuse while providing information to victims in need of Avda's legal and counseling services and to perpetrators seeking our battering intervention and prevention program. Our three- pronged approach includes presentations, service provider trainings, and outreach at community-based events. In 2022, the capp team presented to 22, 459 adult and youth
$3,630,041 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,630,041.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.1M to $4.8M (+53%).
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 31% · 2018 29% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 64% · 2023 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of AVDA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $410k → $732k.
14 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 AVDA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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
AVDA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 AVDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 39% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% — 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
43% of AVDA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of AVDA's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
AVDA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,790 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,790 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Government funding AVDA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $462 on record.
- GRANT IN AID$462
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 AVDA
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVDA: 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 AVDA?
- AVDA (Texas) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,402,669 to it, the largest being LONE STAR LEGAL AID ($1,340,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AVDA have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,402,669 in grants to AVDA, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVDA?
- LONE STAR LEGAL AID is the largest funder on record, with $1,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVDA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 70 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