VI · Nonprofit
VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC
VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC (VI) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,246 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($207,746). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Virgin Islands Advocacy Inc does
Mission
Advance the legal rights of people with disabilities, support and empower families and provide training and information that promotes the overall health and educational development of children and youth in the virgin islands
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Drcvi assisted caregivers with obtaining guardianships, taught people about self-determination as an alternative, and hosted several trainings and information sessions about transition services at various stages of life. Drcvi staff worked with the dd coalition on a monthly newsletter that reaches 250 families and caregivers. Drcvi also conducted monitoring visits to ensure that people in residential facilities were not being neglected or abused, and that they and the staff are aware of their rights. Drcvi hosted activities include deaf awareness and americans with disabilities act celebrations, workforce and wellness events, emergency-preparedness programs, outreach to people experiencing homelessness, children's activities, and back-to-school events.
$148,196 spent21% of program spendingIn 2025, we conducted 9 training sessions to more than 512 professionals, students, youths, young adults, and parents of students with disabilities. We collaborated with the virgin islands department of education, virgin islands department of health behavioral services, beyond visions and family voices, and virgin islands deaf and hard of hearing community. We delivered 12 radio shows and sent 188 informational texts to 37 subscribers. Our staff served over 36 parents, youth, and professionals in the reporting period. We worked individually with 17 administrators, educators, and staff members, providing them with information and resources to strengthen their knowledge about students with disabilities and information for a more inclusive learning.
$109,720 spent15% of program spendingDrcvi provides protection and advocacy services to individuals with mental illness (paimi) and their families. Drcvi hosted several ability radio shows and webinars addressing topics such as suicide prevention, holiday stress, access to psychiatric care, and mental health awareness. Drcvi also partnered with government agencies, schools, and community organizations to reduce stigma and increase public understanding of the challenges faced by individuals with mental illness. Drcvi created a youth empowerment program to assist at risk students and conducted a territory-wide review of mental health services. Drcvi monitored several residential facilities serving individuals with mental illness to help ensure residents were free from abuse, neglect, and rights violations.
$170,143 spent24% of program spendingDrcvi provides legal services, conducts investigations of facilities, provides information and referral services and training and outreach to underserved communities.
$292,277 spent41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $720,336.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $373k to $411k (+10%).
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: 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 88% · 2023 93% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Angus Drigo
Executive director
Board chair
Sherilyn Pogson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $92k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC’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
VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside VI, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.8M
- Department of Education$2.5M
- Social Security Administration$746k
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 VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC
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 VI
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC: 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 VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC?
- VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC (VI) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,246 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($207,746). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $235,246 in grants to VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC?
- Cornell University is the largest funder on record, with $207,746 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGIN ISLANDS ADVOCACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in VI. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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