Alternatives to Violence Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133014706
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3156047940
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,763
- Expenses
- $53,091
- Assets
- $321,544
- Liabilities
- $124
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
People named in this filing
- MAHAYANA LANDOWNE (Director)
- THOMAS GANT (Director)
- ANNEKE RADIN-SNAITH (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Alternatives to violence project New York is a grassroots volunteer organization dedicated to reducing interpersonal violence in our society. We offer experiential workshops that present conflict transformation skills that empower people to lead non-violent lives through affirmation, respect for all, cooperation, communication, community building, and trust.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization held 47 full (16-22 hours) workshops in 2025 with 417 participants completing. 25 of those workshops and two short (12 hour) workshops were held inside 9 nys prisons and one county jail with 256 participants completing. 30 incarcerated facilitators and 26 facilitators from outside the walls put on these workshops. 22 full workshops were held in community settings with 149 adults and 42 teens participating. One short workshop and one facilitator retreat (12 hours each) saw 20 participants total. Two facilitator days were held in the community with 16 facilitators total. 15 mini (less than 6 hour) workshops saw 133 adults and 77 teens participating. 28 new adult apprentice facilitators were trained. 62 facilitators and 13 support team members made these workshops happen. The organization's landing strip in rochester continued to meet twice a month and one in brooklyn met monthly. A second brooklyn landing strip began meeting weekly in november. Landing strips offer a welcoming hand to avpers coming home from prison.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.06; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.