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HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND

HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,237 to it, the largest being THE SIDLEY AUSTIN FOUNDATION ($170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$314k
Net assets
$3.9M
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Hnba Via-Vision in Action-Fund does

Mission

To support and empower hispanic students, legal professionals, and community members, increasing their access to educational opportunities, career advancement, and leadership positions.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Hnba/via corporate counsel conference (ccc) - annual event consists primarily of continuing legal education seminars and networking to provide connections between in-house counsel and outside counsel. In addition, an annual moot court competition is held which is judged by sitting and retired judges to promote mastery of oral and written skills and provides an opportunity for law students from across the nation to gather in an educational environment. Winners of the competition receive scholarship funds.

    $1,073,952 spentof which $71,000 as grants
    36% of program spending
  2. Hnba/via annual convention (ac) - major annual event consists primarily of continuing legal education seminars on a variety of topics and current affairs, as well as training programs and workshops supporting the development and advancement of hispanic students, legal professionals and community. Attendees participate in accredited presentations and discussion forums with leading practitioners and national leaders, and in social and networking events attended by distinguished guests, elected officials and representatives of the hispanic legal and business community.

    $1,028,660 spent$817,615 earned by the program
    35% of program spending
  3. Other hnba/via programs - intellectual property institute (ipli), su dinero program, poder25 program, latina leadership academy, latina executive leadership program, lgbt annual summit, annual youth symposium, law students scholarship program, and pearls of wisdom series, among others. Via fund also publishes noticias, a forum for the exchange of information, opinions, and ideas, twice per year. Noticias is published during the ccc and ac each year and includes substantive articles as well as conferences' programmatic content, which was previously published separately.

    $876,349 spentof which $77,000 as grants
    29% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,978,961.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 178 ($2.7M) Expenses 176 ($2.3M) Net assets 112 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 206 ($3.1M) Expenses 183 ($2.4M) Net assets 154 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 248 ($3.8M) Expenses 230 ($3.1M) Net assets 201 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 225 ($3.4M) Expenses 259 ($3.5M) Net assets 200 ($3.9M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (225)Expenses (259)Net assets (200)Peer revenue range

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 $3.1M to $4.0M (+29%).

$2.4M
$3.1M
$4.0M
$4.5M
$4.5M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$195k
’21
$365k
’22
$706k
’23
$719k
’24
−$27k
’25
2.1
months of
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

Christina Guerola Sarchio

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1211111114
Joined·+5+0+4+5
No longer listed·6042
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $81k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $533k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hispanic National Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND’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

HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

54%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 44% · 2022 97% · 2023 61% — 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.

Where its funders are

HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hispanic National Bar Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND?
HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,237 to it, the largest being THE SIDLEY AUSTIN FOUNDATION ($170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $314,237 in grants to HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND?
THE SIDLEY AUSTIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HNBA VIA-VISION IN ACTION-FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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