After Violence Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800294810
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5129311488
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,068,528
- Expenses
- $1,722,030
- Assets
- $1,425,956
- Liabilities
- $121,581
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jim Kuhn (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Gabriel Solis (Executive Dir.): $111,538 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Texas After Violence Project is a community-based archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understanding of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities. Our mission is to do responsible, inclusive, and ethical research and documentation, and to build an archive of stories and other materials that shift narrative power to marginalized and oppressed communities and promote restorative and transformative justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, we grew and improved our After Violence Archive with a focus on infrastructure upgrades and digital security. In addition to our core community programs, such as our Visions After Violence community fellowship program and artist/writer residencies, we launched new projects such as Archival Belonging and Keepsakes to continue our close work with incarcerated people and their loved ones to document, archive, and share their stories and creative works. Our interactive exhibit Archives is a Sacred Word featured these stories and works, and encouraged reflection on deeper questions about the urgency of liberatory memory work inside jails, detention centers, and prisons. We continued to lead the Community Archives Collaborative, an emerging global network of groups and organizations dedicated to preserving cultural memory historically excluded from institutional archives. We expanded our Access to Treatment Initiative trainings across the U.S, and joined coalitions to close youth prisons in Texas and to urge President Biden to commute all federal death sentences. And so much more...
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.4%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.