Access Esperanza Clinics Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741655329
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mcallen, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9566883700
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Planning Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,444,563
- Expenses
- $9,817,721
- Assets
- $16,431,478
- Liabilities
- $569,993
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIO GONZALES (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICIO GONZALES (CEO): $320,136 total reported compensation
- NORMA GARZA (CFO): $245,313 total reported compensation
- MELINDA CRUZ (CLINICAL OPS DIRECTOR): $240,635 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide education, advocacy, and affordable, high-quality health care services, so all can access preventive, sexual, and reproductive health care without judgment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Access esperanza clinics inc. (aec) has provided reproductive, sexual, and preventive medical services, education for family planning, and promoted research in human reproduction for the past 60 years. Aec is the oldest family planning clinic in hidalgo county, located in the lower rio grande valley on the southern Texas border with mexico. Aec provided high-quality and affordable preventive, reproductive, and sexual health care services to 14,376 unduplicated individuals with 23,127 total medical visits in 2025. In addition, aec provided health care education and information services to 28,493 unduplicated community residents in 2025. Access esperanza clinics inc. Fulfilled its mission and work in providing life-saving medical and education services to its service area.
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 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 14.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $320K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $423K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.