Adopta Ahora, Inc.
Legal name: Adopta Ahora Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 660908414
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- San Juan, PR, Puerto Rico
- Phone
- 787.349.1135
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adoption
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $312,460
- Expenses
- $361,848
- Assets
- $144,468
- Liabilities
- $630
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SYLVIA VILLAFANE (President)
People named in this filing
- SYLVIA VILLAFANE (President)
- NOELIA CORTES (VicePresident)
- DIANA CORDERO (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promover la importancia, viabilidad y necesidad de la adopción de niños puertorriqueños liberados por el Departamento de la Familia del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico de 6 a 17 años. Our mission is to guide and educate the people of Puerto Rico and the world regarding the need, importance, and viability of adoption. NEW ADOPTION LAW In 2018, the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly approved the House Bill Number 20, 2018 (P. C. 29) of the authorship of President of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Hon. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, which upon receiving the signature of the Governor became the New Law of Adoption of Puerto Rico (Law 61-2018, passed on January 27, 2018).
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote the importance, viability, and necessity of the adoption of the adoption of Puerto Rican Children between the ages of 6 and 17 released by the Department of Family if the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $280K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.