Avina Americas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263525897
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 3057999128
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,337,486
- Expenses
- $53,478,325
- Assets
- $7,684,362
- Liabilities
- $55,339
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSIE PETRINI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- VALERIA SCORZA (BOARD MEMBER CHAIR): $330,288 total reported compensation
- JESSIE PETRINI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $135,792 total reported compensation
- CHRISTIAN SAGEL (SECRETARY): $65,203 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization's mission: to promote sustainable development in latin america and globally.
What it reported doing in 2025
Inclusive circular economy: there are millions of latin americans who make their living by recycling. Despite their history of contributions to society, they continue to live in social exclusion and work informally, suffering economic exploitation. To achieve a vision for inclusive circular economy, avina works to promote separation and differentiated collection, to formalize the work of recyclers through the recognition and restitution of labor, social and human rights, and to ensure fair compensation for the service that recyclers provide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- 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: 94.9%; rating input score 95; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,502.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $53M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $330K · 7 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- 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: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.