The Avalon Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880748620
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4042823868
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,012,273
- Expenses
- $23,374,027
- Assets
- $1,395,802
- Liabilities
- $293,285
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE BRENNAN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOE BRENNAN (CEO): $467,816 total reported compensation
- GREG FREY (VP OPERATIONS): $218,801 total reported compensation
- AMY ALVAREZ (VP MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS): $205,754 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Avalon connects our nation's veterans and first responders with life-changing care. We eliminate barriers for our clients, including costs and geographical obstacles. Our alliance partners offer a wide range of treatments, training and support services tailored to the unique needs of our veterans and first responders. Avalon's comprehensive approach to tackling tbi, pts, and substance abuse is vital to transforming lives, creating hope and healing families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our alliance of seven tbi centers across the country provide 100+ hours of personalized care in three weeks for brain health. With a unified care team, we create a plan that gives unmatched results and empowers our clients with the tools they need to move forward with their lives.our alliance of 11 posttraumatic growth programs provide the training needed to transform struggle into strength and thrive in the aftermath of trauma. This program kicks off with seven days of on-site training followed by 3 months of dedicated support and connection in a peer-led environment.our alliance of two substance abuse treatment centers provide treatment for individuals seeking relief from substance abuse. Offering a 42-day inpatient treatment program, we create an environment where healing happens with fellow warriors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -29.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -31.9% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -134.3% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $468K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $305K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 14 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.