Texas · Nonprofit
VOLAR
VOLAR (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,584 to it, the largest being IMA FOUNDATION ($15,956). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Volar does
Mission
Volar provides individualized college and career advising to first-generation students in the Dallas area. Our goal is to increase degree attainment for these groups of students. In addition, we want to support college completion for students choosing this path through best fit counseling, family engagement, and scholarship opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Volar provided $7950 in scholarships to high school seniors. Helping them attend and transition to college with lower financial burdens by being able to cover immediate needs. This includes transportation costs to get to campus, clothing necessities, textbooks, dorm needs, and other unexpected first-year expenses.
$7,950 spent20% of program spendingVOLAR provided 21,360 minutes of individualized advising through its college, high school, and primary advisors. The primary advisor also dedicated 8-10 hours per month to training and coordinating with contractors supporting student services. During the year, VOLAR served 51 students within its core cohort and an additional 19 students through community workshops and virtual advising sessions. Services were delivered both virtually and in-person, supporting students in college access, career development, and financial aid processes.
$28,768 spent73% of program spendingVOLAR hosted 8 community and financial aid workshops focused on providing education and guidance to students and parents/guardians, with an estimated total attendance of over 100 participants. Workshop topics included college applications, financial aid, college cost estimation, college options, and available resources through VOLAR to support students and families.
$2,524 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,242.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $38k to $36k (−5%).
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.
94% of VOLAR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cynthia Gudiel
Executive Director & Primary Advisor
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 VOLAR’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
VOLAR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 VOLAR.
“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
53% of VOLAR's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $31k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.
Against its field
VOLAR receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $67k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VOLAR
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.
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 VOLAR: 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 VOLAR?
- VOLAR (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,584 to it, the largest being IMA FOUNDATION ($15,956). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLAR have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $66,584 in grants to VOLAR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLAR?
- IMA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLAR 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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