Alta Mira Specialized Family Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850339642
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Phone
5052620801
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,287,120
Expenses
$12,256,889
Assets
$12,537,816
Liabilities
$1,426,234

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAMELA CLARK FROM JAN '25 (PRESIDENT EL)
  • MARGARET GRAHAM (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANGELIQUE TAFOYA (EXECUTIVE DI): $133,327 total reported compensation
  • BOBBY JONES (OPERATIONS D): $106,132 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Alta mira specialized family services, inc supports individuals with developmental risks, delays, or disabilities and their families to optimize quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2024

Family support services respite programs - provides families a break from the 24-hour demands of having an adult or child with special needs by allocating them to have a trained caregiver provide the needed daily supports and allow the family time for themselves. This program serves infants, children and adults who meet eligibility requirements. Family living services - program provides services under a contract with the natural or surrogate family to provide a home for an adult (18 years and older) who has a developmental disability. Families are responsible for 24 -hour care of the individual, which includes personal care. The family provider may receive substitute care services. Provider families are approved through the developmental disabilities medicaid waiver program and must complete training through the New Mexico health care authority (hca)developmental disabilities supports division (ddsd). During the fiscal year, 303 individuals were served.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 19.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 11 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $160K reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.