Andrea's Project seeks sponsors for its fundraisers after a year of $42,247 in revenue and a $12,797 deficit

A listing in the Amarillo Globe-News, syndicated through Yahoo News and captured for this piece on Sept. 5, asks the Texas Panhandle to turn out for a small nonprofit. Andrea's Project, the listing states, "is seeking businesses, churches, and other organizations to participate through sponsorships, in-kind donations, interactive activities, and volunteer support." The appeal is ordinary, which is the point of it. What is absent from it is a person. As captured, not one line of the listing is attributed to a named individual; the events arrive in the flat voice of a calendar entry. The record that tests an appeal like this one is therefore not a quote from anybody. It is the organization's own filing.

The listing sells a slate of events. One event is described as offering a two-person scramble format, raffle prizes, a 50/50 drawing and lunch. Another is presented as bringing together "live entertainment, food trucks, family and youth activities, prevention education, recovery speakers, and community resource organizations." A community calendar entry carried by High Plains Public Radio for the Big Texas Rally for Recovery in Amarillo, a separate document the captures do not tie to the listing's events, lists "Live entertainment and recovery speakers" and opens its invitation wide: "Whether you are in recovery, supporting someone you love, looking for resources, or simply want to celebrate the strength of our community, you are welcome!"

The mission those events are said to serve is set out on the organization's own website. Andrea's Project, the site states, "works to prevent impaired driving and reduce alcohol- and substance-related harm through evidence-based education, youth engagement, advocacy, and environmental strategies that empower individuals and strengthen communities in honoring the life and legacy of Andrea Elizalde." The same page also carries a second sentence, with no heading or label attached to it in the version captured for this piece: "Keep the Panhandle free from alcohol and substance-related disease, injury and death." A memorial charity states its purpose in the name of the person it lost. That is the claim half, and it is not in dispute here.

The checkable half sits with the IRS. Andrea Project Inc files under EIN 86-2230194, and ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer republishes the summary data from those Form 990 returns as four figures a year: total revenue, total expenses, total assets at year end, total liabilities at year end. For fiscal 2023 the row reads $92,638, $51,136, $132,752 and $0. For fiscal 2024 it reads $42,247, $55,044, $119,956 and $0. The service's own JSON for fiscal 2023 returns the same numbers under the field names totrevenue, totfuncexpns, totassetsend and totliabend, so the table and the underlying data agree.

Set the two lines side by side and the year has a shape. Revenue fell by $50,391, about 54 percent. Expenses rose by $3,908. In 2023 the organization took in $41,502 more than it spent. In 2024 it spent $12,797 more than it took in. Total assets at year end fell by $12,796, and because liabilities are recorded as $0 in both years, that assets column and net assets are the same number here.

A deficit year is not a finding of anything, and it should not be read as one. The four columns are totals. They do not show where the money came from, what it was spent on, whether a grant banked in one year was being deployed on schedule in the next, or how many students, parents or drivers the programs reached. A small charity that raises in one year and spends in the following one produces exactly this pattern, and the filings record no debt at either year end. What the record does establish is scale, which the fundraising listing never mentions: the whole of the organization's 2024 revenue was $42,247, and it closed the year holding $119,956 and owing nothing.

Officer pay is on the same public record, and it moved with the money. Compensation for the Executive Director is listed at $22,595 for 2023 and $16,961 for 2024, a fall of $5,634 in a year when revenue fell by more than half. Nonprofit Explorer names Laviza Matthews in that role for both years. Two other officers appear with no compensation at all: David Elizalde, listed as President, and Dawn Padilla, listed as Treasurer, each at $0. None of that appears in coverage of the fundraisers, and none of it is an accusation. It is what the smallest kind of charity looks like from the inside when the giving slows.

The same filing data dates the organization. The ruling date recorded for Andrea Project Inc is June 1, 2021. The address on file is 701 N POLK in Amarillo, Texas. Its NTEE code is I23, and its subsection code is 3. The nonprofit's formal life, in other words, is roughly five years old, and the two years of summary data now public are the only years a reader can compare.

The harm the group was formed around has a state record of its own, though it is written at a scale no single charity works at. A Texas Department of Transportation release states that "Drunk driving can change lives forever." and, describing one family's loss, "All because someone made the decision to get behind the wheel after drinking." A later TxDOT release, carried by Blue Ribbon News in June 2025, states that "Making the choice to drive drunk instead of finding a sober ride home can and does lead to serious consequences." Neither captured passage names a speaker, and neither captured passage mentions Andrea's Project.

There is one other dated marker of what the organization has been doing between filings. In November 2025 the Amarillo Tribune reported that Andrea's Project had established a coalition to collaborate on substance abuse education. The passages captured from that report carry no speaker name. The report quotes a description of the coalition's starting question - "We were kind of coming up with a plan to kind of look at, 'What do we have in our community to combat [substance abuse], and what's missing?'" - and a claim about results: "In tobacco alone, we've seen upwards of a 90% reduction across every grade level, across every year." That figure is a quoted assertion in a news report, not a number this desk could verify against a dataset.

The fundraising appeal comes first, and the return that could account for it comes later. If Andrea Project Inc files for fiscal 2025, that return should reach the same Nonprofit Explorer page and appear in the same four columns. This desk expects a fiscal 2025 row to be visible there by June 30, 2027; as of Sept. 5, 2026 the most recent row on that page is 2024. That row is where a reader finds out what the sponsorship appeal cannot say: whether the $12,797 gap was one year of spending money the organization had already raised, or the year the giving stopped keeping up.