Alianza Agricola Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852230203
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Geneseo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5853407438
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $230,961
- Expenses
- $262,821
- Assets
- $499,793
- Liabilities
- $6,775
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Luis Jimenez (President/Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Luis Jimenez (President/Executive Director): $26,625 total reported compensation
- Ismael Castellanos (Member): $4,900 total reported compensation
- Marcos Martinez (Member): $4,650 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist immigrant farmworkers in Western and Central New York by providing resources to immigrant farmworkers and their families to navigate language and cultural barriers (Continued on Schedule O)and by educating communities about immigrant farmworkers and their contributions to local economies and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Increasing the size/scale of Alianza Agricola (base-building) and investing in our members' education and development, provide education and other opportunities for leadership and capacity-building for the organization. Ensuring that our organization continues to operate using principles of democracy and participation in which all members have a voice and say in decisions made, program priorities, and areas of growth. The organization continues to raise awareness of issues of workers and immigrants' rights through community events and cultural celebrations, monthly meetings, annual retreats, visits to people's homes (outreach) and trainings and webinars. (Continued on Schedule O)Our members, organizers and leaders work to raise awareness about our organization and the needs of our community through public presentations and coalition building with ally groups and individuals with whom we work in partnership.This program is supported by contributions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 25th 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 113.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $211K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.