Texas · Nonprofit
Avenue Community Development Corporation
Avenue Community Development Corporation (Texas) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,144,569 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,610,506). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Avenue Community Development Corporation does
Mission
The mission of Avenue Community Development Corporation ("Avenue") is to invest in people, homes and communities to advance opportunity for all Houstonians. Continued on Schedule O. Avenue's vision is for all Houstonians to have the opportunity to live in quality homes in healthy, vibrant, and inclusive neighborhoods to ensure Houston's future as a world class city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affordable Housing: Expenditures relating to the purchase, development, and maintenance of affordable multifamily housing and single-family housing for people living with low to moderate incomes. This activity includes the rental and operation of Avenue's rental portfolio. Avenue Center, the organization's headquarters, also rents space to other nonprofits serving this vulnerable population.
$6,178,299 spent$1,981,989 earned by the program87% of program spendingFamily Asset-Building and Other Programs: Promotes homeownership and financial stability through education and counseling. Services include homebuyer education classes, pre- and post-purchase counseling, foreclosure intervention, and matched savings opportunities. During 2025, Avenue provided homebuyer education to 734 households, supported 86 new homeowners, assisted 103 households in preserving their homes, and helped 3 clients access matched savings.
$504,325 spent7% of program spendingCommunity Initiatives: Fosters resident engagement, leadership, and collaboration to strengthen neighborhoods. Activities include life-skills training, civic engagement, volunteerism, and advocacy for community improvements. By working with residents, government agencies, community organizations, and businesses, Avenue helps increase public safety, beautify neighborhoods, promote health and wellness, improve educational outcomes, and support local arts and culture.
$449,176 spentof which $109,029 as grants$797,603 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,131,800.
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 2023 to 2024, from $87M to $64M (−27%).
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 10% · 2018 8% · 2019 12% · 2020 6% · 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 11% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Avenue Community Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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
Mary Lawler
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $3.3M → $2.3M.
8 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Avenue Community Development Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
Avenue Community Development Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Avenue Community Development Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 77% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 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
38% of Avenue Community Development Corporation'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
Avenue Community Development Corporation draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Avenue Community Development Corporation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Avenue Community Development Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.5M
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 Avenue Community Development Corporation
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 26 related entities
- Avenue 2505 Washington LLC · disregarded
- Avenue Jeff Davis LLC · disregarded
- Avenue Station GP LLC · disregarded
- Avenue Center Association LLC · disregarded
- Avenue Gale Winds LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Avenue Community Development Corporation: 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 Avenue Community Development Corporation?
- Avenue Community Development Corporation (Texas) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,144,569 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,610,506). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Avenue Community Development Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $31,144,569 in grants to Avenue Community Development Corporation, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Avenue Community Development Corporation?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,610,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Avenue Community Development Corporation 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 58 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