Americans Against Gun Violence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811741008
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Folsom, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9166684160
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,867
- Expenses
- $22,214
- Assets
- $110,435
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Durston (President)
- Raymond Swanson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- William Durston (President)
- Raymond Swanson (Vice President)
- Marilyn Bradford (Secretary/Treasurer)
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
The purpose of Americans Against Gun Violence is to educate the American people concerning the main causes of our country's epidemic of gun related deaths and injuries and the definitive measures needed to stop this epidemic.
What it reported doing in 2025
Americans Against Gun Violence hosted its annual national high school scholarship essay contest in 2025, open to all U.S. high school students, in which students were asked to think and write critically about our country's epidemic of gun violence and the definitive measures need to stop this epidemic. We awarded a total of $18,500 in scholarships distributed among 28 students and posted the winning essays, or excerpts from them, on our website, thereby providing students with a platform to express their own views concerning the epidemic of gun violence that disproportionately affects our country's children and youth. We also sent periodic newsletters to the approximately 2,500 people on our listserv and posted updated information on our website related to new developments in the area of gun violence and gun violence prevention in the United States, including comparing rates of gun violence, rates of gun ownership, and gun-related laws in the United States in other high income democratic countries that have far less gun violence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.4%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 8
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.97; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 73.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.4% of revenue deployed · 8.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.