Resilient Advocates Collective
Overview
Mission
To provide training and coaching to attorneys, advocates, and organizers in legal, advocacy, communication, and practice management strategies to foster greater resilience within nonprofit legal communities, and model this through community-driven legal services delivery and support for low-income and marginalized communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Network. Launched network for advocates who want to connect with each other to discuss and share resources related to resilient advocacy. Hosted a training event with nominal fees for participants to learn from a panel of experts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991499016
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3016466400
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -52% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -85.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: FY2025.