AVID Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330522594
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- Phone
- 1-833-AVID-CARE
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,402,327
- Expenses
- $84,427,839
- Assets
- $152,539,839
- Liabilities
- $35,781,512
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THUAN NGUYEN (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- MARCI M PRICE TERM 123124 (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINE GOENS (ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA COLE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRETT A BOWERS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KYLE HATFIELD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THUAN NGUYEN (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $1,095,046 total reported compensation
- STEVE SILBERMAN (CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER): $411,877 total reported compensation
- MELISSA FOWLER (CHIEF ENGAGEMENT OFFICER): $352,221 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college and career readiness.
What it reported doing in 2024
To deliver on its mission, avid (advancement via individual determination) has developed a programmatic model that 7,400 schools in 46 states and the district of columbia are implementing along with schools in the u.s. Virgin islands, canada, and australia and with dodea. We provide direct ongoing support to all implementing schools and districts. We also deliver three-day face-to-face trainings for educators in various roles to guide them in implementing and sustaining avid, honing their practices, and improving their systems. We hold these trainings across the country in the summer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $74.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $519K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.