Damayan Migrant Workers Association Inc

Overview

Mission

Damayan empowers filipino migrant workers to fight for their labor, health, gender, and immigrant rights. The organization's purpose is to build workers' power to eliminate labor and human trafficking, fight wage theft and discrimination, and demand fair labor standards to achieve economic and social justice for all.

What it reported doing in 2024

Workers and immigrants' rights - damayan empowers filipino migrant domestic workers and trafficking survivors in New York city ro reclaim their rights and dignity. Our comprehensive services help workers recover stolen wages, combat labor trafficking, obtain humanitarian visas, and build collective worker power to advocate for systemic change in the domestic work industry. We conducted 20+ know your rights training sessions reaching over 400 community members on immigration, labor, and health rights regardless of immigration status. We organized four legal clinics providing case management and direct attorney access for trafficking survivors and undocumented workers. Through community outreach, we reached over 5,000 individuals, significantly increasing awareness of available resources and protections. Most of our damayan members are women domestic workers who work as nannies, babysitters, housekeepiers, and caregivers. In partnership with werise nanny training program, cornell workser institute, and carroll gardens association, we launched a peer-led training program for domestic workers seeking to advance their careers. Led by trainers with lived experience as domestic workers, the program covered social-emotional development, pediatrics, preventing secual harassment, home as workplace, cpr/firs aid, and community organizing-equipping workers with both technical skills and labor rights knowledge. Damayan remains committed to empower domestic workers and raise the standards in the labor industry. These integrated efforts have significantly advanced protections and empowered the rights for migrant domestic workers and trafficking survivors while building sustainable worker power for long-term advocacy and systemic change.

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 96% 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.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
030481206
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2125646057
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$453,571
Expenses
$487,356
Assets
$2,248,620
Liabilities
$29,121

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 75
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.5%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.61; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.5% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $437K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • SIERRA ORTIZ (EXECUTIVE DI): $80,308 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024.