Avnu Alliance Inc C/o Vital Technical Marketing Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264801471
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Beaverton, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5036190571
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $651,666
- Expenses
- $709,414
- Assets
- $475,022
- Liabilities
- $750
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVE CAVALCANTI (PRESIDENT/CH)
People named in this filing
- DAVE CAVALCANTI (PRESIDENT/CH)
- MATTHEW MORA (SECRETARY)
- GENIO KRONAUER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the corporation shall be to encourage and enable the rapid, broad and open industry adoption of standards-based networking features for time-sensitive, highly reliable audio/video applications. While the layer-2 standards developed by the ieee 802.1 avb task group provide a foundation for said features, other standards and/or specifications will also be referenced or employed as necessary to provide a quality end-to-end compatibility and experience. To this end it is anticipated that the corporation will engage in the following as appropriate: 1. Provide a forum where participants identify and document test requirements for verifying conformance to relevant standards (e.g. The ieee 802.1 avb standards, but not strictly limited to these). 2. Educate customers as to the applications, value, and benefits of networked systems based on avb standards. 3. Protect the needs of customers and increase competition among vendors by supporting the creation and implementation of confo
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization's largest program services as measured by expenses were 1) marketing/communication activities to educate the industry about the value of avb/tsn, and milan, and drive increased awareness in the market, 2) certification program/technical activities to improve avnu's certification program in order to establish itself as a center of excellence for avb/tsn testing, and 3) secretariat support to manage membership, finances, and operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $300K reported
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.