California · Nonprofit
AVID CENTER
AVID CENTER (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,579,061 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($2,172,810). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $86M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $117M
What Avid Center does
Mission
To close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college and career readiness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To deliver on its mission, avid (advancement via individual determination) has developed a programmatic model that 7,400 schools in 46 states and the district of columbia are implementing along with schools in the u.s. Virgin islands, canada, and australia and with dodea. We provide direct ongoing support to all implementing schools and districts. We also deliver three-day face-to-face trainings for educators in various roles to guide them in implementing and sustaining avid, honing their practices, and improving their systems. We hold these trainings across the country in the summer.
$55,969,093 spentof which $312,005 as grants$35,222,251 earned by the program75% of program spendingAvid also conducts two-day face-to-face trainings locally or regionally as well as two-day virtual trainings for educators in various roles to implement and sustain avid, hone their practices, and improve their systems. These two-day trainings are held during the school year and in the summer.
$16,752,661 spent$34,328,862 earned by the program23% of program spendingAvid provides year-long, multi-session trainings district directors who oversee the avid implementation in their district. The trainings are designed to equip the district directors to lead and sustain the avid implementations in their district.
$352,191 spent$2,516,573 earned by the program0% of program spendingAvid conducts virtual and face-to-face, two-day trainings.
$1,135,133 spent$4,467,106 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: $74,209,078.
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 2020 to 2021, from $135M to $156M (+16%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of AVID CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Board chair
Eligio Pimentel Esq
Board chair/treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $282k → $448k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 AVID CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
AVID CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 AVID CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% — 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
44% of AVID CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
AVID CENTER draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $775k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AVID CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding AVID CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record — $4.0M federal, $3.3M state.
- Department of Defense$4.0M
- Department of the Interior$59k
- OR$2.0M
- DE$1.3M
- FL$256
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 AVID CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Avid Center (Australia) Pty Ltd · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVID CENTER: 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 AVID CENTER?
- AVID CENTER (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,579,061 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($2,172,810). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AVID CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,579,061 in grants to AVID CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVID CENTER?
- JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,172,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVID CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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