Alianza Para La Educacion Alternativa Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
660731827
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Juan, PR, USA
Phone
7877718386
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,000,000
Expenses
$14,999,594
Assets
$220,954
Liabilities
$7,495

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARIA A QUINTANA (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CLAVEL MENDEZ JOY (EXEC. DIRECTOR): $78,600 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The aea mission isto enhance the quality of education in puerto rico by strenghtening effective and succesful models of alternative education, leading to the integral formation of people who interrupted their education to prevent school dropout and guide them toward new and productive life opportunities

What it reported doing in 2024

Proyecto nacer -pn is a christian nonprofit organization that provides services to the first time teen parents and pregnant teens up to 18 years who also work. This organization represents the only alternative for the comprehensive development of adolescent fathers and mothers of puerto rico, where their service model is centered on the family. Nicolle and rose mary recount how they have had to grow up and change their course now that they will be mothers. They are participants in the pn project in bayamon, pr. The organization guides teenagers toward responsible parenthood, helps them complete their fourth year in high school studies, and cares for infants while their parents improve themselves through education or the the work enviroment. With the help and guidance that the adolescents have recieved at the pn, where they not only take classes to complete the high shool, but also have courses on the birth process, the importante of breastfeeding and how to raise their baby. Now they have more hope.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Affiliate network. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending through affiliated organizations.

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: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $14.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.