Project Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680433289
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154578799
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,925,168
- Expenses
- $2,200,674
- Assets
- $5,853,850
- Liabilities
- $211,419
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ZACHARY WHELAN (EXEC DIRECTOR (THROUGH 8/2024)): $176,448 total reported compensation
- AMBROSIA PHOUMMATHEP-WINSPEAR (DIR OF FIN & OPS/EXEC DIR): $173,164 total reported compensation
- AMY DELEON (DIR OF FUND DEVELOPMENT): $131,216 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project avary supports children of incarcerated parents to overcome the impacts of having a parent in prison or jail. We surround children with a long-term community of support and belonging where they heal and grow strong, and we empower them with the life and leadership skills to step into bright and successful futures.
What it reported doing in 2024
Project avary provides children of incarcerated parents with the social/emotional support and healing, leadership development, and job skills training to strengthen participants' resiliency and protective factors in order to help them overcome the impacts and risk factors of having an incarcerated parent. Program evaluations show that 88-92% of participants demonstrate success in key psycho-social indicators that children of incarcerated parents need in order to have success in their life and remain free from the criminal justice system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.6%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 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: 43.9%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.66; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.6% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $176K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.