Alpfa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320178401
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8556925732
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $742
- Assets
- $731,733
- Liabilities
- $16,548
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAMIAN RIVERA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAMIAN RIVERA (CEO): $509,537 total reported compensation
- SELENE BENAVIDES (CFO): $283,465 total reported compensation
- ENNA JIMENEZ (DIRECTOR (THRU 8/24)): $100,000 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 empower and develop latino leaders of character for the nation, in every sector of the global economy, while embracing people of all backgrounds who share this mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Leadership development, career advancement, and community impact alpfa is a latino-culturally focused and all-inclusive organization that empowers students and professionals of all backgrounds to rise as leaders in every sector of the global economy. Through a national network of student and professional chaptersincluding more than 200 at community colleges, universities, and ivy league schoolsalpfa provides free and low-cost programs in leadership development, mentorship, career readiness, and networking designed to build skills, confidence, and connections. Multi-day programs such as the national convention, women of alpfa, regional student symposia, and technology summits offer experiential learning, hands-on leadership training, coaching, scholarships, fellowships, and direct access to internship and employment opportunities.alpfa's digital platform, alpfa+, extends these benefits nationwide, offering free, community-built learning and development content, personalized mentorship, and career resources. The alpfa+ platform is created by and for the community, showcasing experts who share knowledge, model lifelong learning, and demonstrate the behaviors needed for success beyond the classroom. This enables students to learn directly from role models and apply new skills in their chapters and communities.through these efforts, alpfa is building a self-reinforcing leadership ecosystemone that equips students to learn, grow, and give back as professionals who uplift theirfamilies, communities, and the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 986.16; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8,207.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $510K · 22 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.