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ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC

EIN 92-0240689 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2025
$1,538,735
Expenses 2025
$1,518,659

Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R02
Classification
1000
Street
224 W 35TH STREET 50023

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ADVOCACY INSTITUTE SUPPORTS SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS TO BUILD THE ADVOCACY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER THEY NEED TO SHAPE GOVERNMENT POLICY FOR A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE NEW YORK.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BUILD ADVOCACY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER TO SHAPE GOVERNMENT POLICY FOR A MORE EQUITABLE NEW YORK.

  • ADVOCACY INSTITUTE PROVIDES ADVOCATES AND ORGANIZERS ACROSS NEW YORK STATE WITH THE TOOLS TO FIGHT FOR POLICY CHANGE MORE EFFECTIVELY, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN SHUT OUT OF DECISION-MAKING, INCLUDING COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, IMMIGRANTS, LOW-INCOME PEOPLE, AND LGBTQ+ PEOPLE. PROGRAMS INCLUDE DYNAMIC TRAININGS ON THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS, INTERACTIVE TOOLS THAT MAP OUT POWER RELATIONSHIPS IN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ONE-ON-ONE STRATEGIC CONSULTING, AN IN-DEPTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR EMERGING LEADERS, PEER CONVENINGS LEARNING AND NETWORKING, AND TRAININGS FOR FUNDERS AND DONORS ON HOW BEST TO RESOURCE ADVOCACY AND ORGANIZING. THROUGH ITS PROGRAMMING, ADVOCACY INSTITUTE STRENGTHENS NEW YORK'S SOCIAL JUSTICE ECOSYSTEM TO WIN TRANSFORMATIVE LEGISLATIVE REFORMS.

    Expenses $1,195,196 · Revenue $171,791

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rocky Fine Thru April

    BOARD MEMBER/CONSULTANT

    Total calculated
    $10,250
    From this org
    $10,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elz Jones Board V-Chair

    (THRU DEC 2024); BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kiana Abbady Board Member

    (THRU DEC 2024); VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Myles Paisley Board Member

    (THRU AUG.); TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kathleen Rubenstein

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Murad Awawdeh Board Treasurer

    (THRU SEP. 2025); BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlyn Cowen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jose Davila

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lukee Forbes

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley Gantt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dorothy Janick

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gabriela Quintanilla

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cori Parrish

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $169,322
    From this org
    $144,392
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,930
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,392
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,220
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,710
    Filer's total
    $169,322

  • Tanvier Peart

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $151,894
    From this org
    $144,158
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,736
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,158
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,208
    Nontaxable benefits
    $528
    Filer's total
    $151,894

  • Jasmin Hernandez

    SYSTEMS ENGINEER

    Total calculated
    $127,463
    From this org
    $104,636
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,827
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Ng

    ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $106,650
    From this org
    $101,190
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,460
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,538,735
    Expenses
    $1,518,659
    Contributions
    $1,370,850
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,278,046
    Expenses
    $1,401,860
    Contributions
    $1,143,019
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,989,065
    Expenses
    $892,407
    Contributions
    $2,873,011
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.