New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-violence Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133149200
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127141184
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,068,386
- Expenses
- $3,645,075
- Assets
- $1,725,348
- Liabilities
- $459,659
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- AUDACIA RAY (INTERIM EXEC): $139,933 total reported compensation
- ASHLEY NICOLE YOUNG (DIR. OF LEGA): $119,610 total reported compensation
- ADITI BHATTACHARYA (DEPUTY DIR.): $108,014 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The New York city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Avp's lgbtq legal services project provides holistic, direct legal services to underserved lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) survivors of all forms of violence, co-located with avps existing culturally competent direct social services. In fy25, the legal services team closed 145 legal cases, opened 146 new cases, and currently have open 137 legal cases. Avp is proud to offer holistic legal services. Holistic legal services range from intake, advice, and representation in multiple issue areas, including: - family law: orders of protection, child/spousal support, child custody, divorce; - public benefits: representation to those who have been denied or improperly terminated from snap, cash assistance or rental assistance; - immigration: affirmative and defensive asylum, u &t visas, vawa self- petitions, work authorization, adjustment of status and naturalization; - housing: eviction and hp proceedings; - legal name and id document changes: civil court name change for transgender and gender non-conforming survivors and associated name and gender marker changes on id documents (social security card, nys birth certificates, state identification, etc.); - criminal court: representation of complaining witnesses in criminal court (avp does not do criminal defense work). Erved lgbtq communities. Holistic legal services range from intake, advice, and representation on issues such as orders of protection, child support, child custody, legal separation/divorce or dissolution, immigration matters, financial matters, housing matters, name changes, advanced directives, and representation as complaining witnesses in criminal court as clients need these services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -18.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.