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AVINA AMERICAS INC

EIN 26-3525897 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$3,337,486
Expenses 2025
$53,478,325

Program services were 99.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q30
Classification
2100
Street
1300 I STREET NW PMB-500104 400E

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

ORGANIZATION'S MISSION: TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND GLOBALLY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • BIOMES: AVINA CONSIDERS THE BIOMES THAT EXIST IN SOUTH AMERICA (CHACO, PANTANAL, AMAZONIA) AND GLOBALLY TO BE A PUBLIC GOOD AND SEEKS TO GUARANTEE THE LONGEVITY OF THE ECOSYSTEM AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF RESIDENTS. IN ADDITION, THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS MAPPING AND MONITORING OF 70% OF THE WORLD'S TROPICAL FOREST AREA BY 2030.

    Expenses $45,004,616 · Grants $44,956,201

  • LABOR INNOVATION: THIS PROGRAM AREA SEEKS TO COMBINE EFFORTS, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND RESOURCES (FROM PHILANTHROPY, COOPERATIONS, THE PRIVATE SECTOR, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND OTHER ACTORS), TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE PERSPECTIVE AND INTERESTS OF WORKERS, COMPANIES, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS, IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LABOR SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS DIGNITY AND CARE FOR THE PLANET IN THE CREATION OF GOODS AND THE PROVISION OF SERVICES.

    Expenses $2,281,994 · Grants $2,250,881

  • INCLUSIVE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: THERE ARE MILLIONS OF LATIN AMERICANS WHO MAKE THEIR LIVING BY RECYCLING. DESPITE THEIR HISTORY OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY, THEY CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND WORK INFORMALLY, SUFFERING ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION. TO ACHIEVE A VISION FOR INCLUSIVE CIRCULAR ECONOMY, AVINA WORKS TO PROMOTE SEPARATION AND DIFFERENTIATED COLLECTION, TO FORMALIZE THE WORK OF RECYCLERS THROUGH THE RECOGNITION AND RESTITUTION OF LABOR, SOCIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS, AND TO ENSURE FAIR COMPENSATION FOR THE SERVICE THAT RECYCLERS PROVIDE.

    Expenses $2,234,829 · Grants $2,175,328

  • DEMOCRACY: THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO INCREASE CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES, INCLUDING THE USE OF CIVIC TECHNOLOGIES AND OPEN DATA IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A STRONGER SOCIETY.

    Expenses $2,032,401 · Grants $2,018,047

  • WATER: AVINA, ALONG WITH A GROWING NUMBER OF ALLIES, WORKED TO ACHIEVE THE VISIBILITY, RECOGNITION, STRENGTHENING, AND ARTICULATION OF COMMUNITY EFFORTS FOR ACCESS TO POTABLE WATER THROUGH THE "INICIATIVA+AGUA". SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS, BUSINESSES, AND OTHERS HAVE JOINED THE EFFORT, ALONG WITH HUNDREDS OF LOCAL ALLIES AND THOUSANDS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS IN THE REGION TO IMPROVE AND ADVANCE COMMUNITY WATER PROCUREMENT.

    Expenses $930,902 · Grants $919,433

  • CLIMATE: AVINA WORKS TO ENSURE THAT LATIN AMERICAN AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION IN CLIMATE ACTION.

    Expenses $410,959 · Grants $392,929

  • OTHER

    Expenses $129,995

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MELAT TESFAYE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $6,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • KATHERINE MARSHALL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $5,000
    From this org
    $5,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • HILDA VEGA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $4,000
    From this org
    $4,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • EDITH ASIBEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $4,000
    From this org
    $4,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • VALERIA SCORZA

    BOARD MEMBER CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $330,288
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $330,288
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $330,288 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $330,288 related

  • JESSIE PETRINI

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,792
    From this org
    $130,620
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,172
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHRISTIAN SAGEL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $65,203
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $65,203
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

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
    $3,337,486
    Expenses
    $53,478,325
    Contributions
    $2,509,705
    Grants paid
    $52,712,819
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,898,341
    Expenses
    $6,831,569
    Contributions
    $10,713,850
    Grants paid
    $6,069,966
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,906,935
    Expenses
    $5,708,452
    Contributions
    $3,883,224
    Grants paid
    $4,856,328

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,071,286
    Expenses
    $4,296,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,849,300

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,496,751
    Expenses
    $5,133,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,759,605

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,202,697
    Expenses
    $3,193,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,393,253

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,854,403
    Expenses
    $5,851,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,385,216

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,902,863
    Expenses
    $4,782,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,766,782

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,742,218
    Expenses
    $3,980,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,717,273

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,499,316
    Expenses
    $4,367,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,924,793

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Emily Fintel
Mailing address
1314 Rhode Island Ave NWApt 2Washington DC 20005

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • FUNDACION AVINA - PANAMA

    501(C)(3) · TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA · PM

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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.