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AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS
AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $826k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Avela - a Vision for Engineering Literacy & Access does
Mission
AVELA members teach K-12 students about college, computing, and engineering through classes, workshops, and other forms of community outreach by representing the populations we aim to support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Reboot Representation Grant aimed to support women in AVELA, who constitute 60% - 70% of the organization's STEM instructors. The grant provided $4,000 stipends to 40 different AVELA student instructors. This initiative was designed to encourage more women to participate and excel in STEM fields, directly benefiting the female educators involved in AVELA's programs. Because of this initiative, AVELA helped double the number of BLNA women getting computing degrees from 2022 to 2025. An AVELA staff member helped facilitate the partnerships.
$220,000 spent$180,000 earned by the program27% of program spendingThis partnership funding covered stipends to instructors to reach STEM lessons to secondary school students. The AVELA-Amazon partnership funding also covered expenses for hosting the AVELA-Amazon Scholarship Night. It included sessions on scholarship applications, essay writing, and breakout sessions, with support through food and prizes to keep attendees engaged and informed about scholarship opportunities.
$294,421 spent$210,578 earned by the program37% of program spendingIn partnership with SPEEA, AVELA received a grant to host a series of STEM workshops. AVELA instructors led lessons on topics like Drone Building, CAD design, AI for Aerospace, Data Activism, and User Experience Research & Design. These workshops engaged participants in hands-on learning, providing both instructional time and office hours for additional support.
$99,425 spent$99,425 earned by the program12% of program spendingBICE Conference
$27,000 spent$27,000 earned by the program3% of program spendingGeneral educational programs
$89,077 spent$69,077 earned by the program11% of program spendingSpecialized classes
$73,847 spent$73,847 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $803,770.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $137k to $337k (+145%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Chief executive
Kyle Johnson
Chair and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS.
“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
61% of AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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.
Against its field
AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS?
- AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,000 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $127,000 in grants to AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS.
- Who is the largest funder of AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVELA - A VISION FOR ENGINEERING LITERACY & ACCESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2022–2024), 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