California · Nonprofit
PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH
PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH (California) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,907,290 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,219,783). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Project Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth does
Mission
Project avary supports children of incarcerated parents to overcome the impacts of having a parent in prison or jail. We surround children with a long-term community of support and belonging where they heal and grow strong, and we empower them with the life and leadership skills to step into bright and successful futures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Project avary provides children of incarcerated parents with the social/emotional support and healing, leadership development, and job skills training to strengthen participants' resiliency and protective factors in order to help them overcome the impacts and risk factors of having an incarcerated parent. Program evaluations show that 88-92% of participants demonstrate success in key psycho-social indicators that children of incarcerated parents need in order to have success in their life and remain free from the criminal justice system.
$1,867,635 spent$2,180,575 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,867,635.
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 $4.1M to $5.9M (+41%).
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 18% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 37% · 2023 56% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% 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
Debra Radford
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $323k → $873k.
16 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
56% 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 PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 14% · 2023 11% — 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
52% of PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH'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
69% of PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.5M
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 PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: 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 PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH?
- PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH (California) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,907,290 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,219,783). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $6,907,290 in grants to PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,219,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH 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 79 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