American Assoc of Hispanics in Higher Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300150324
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8006745660
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $324,422
- Expenses
- $284,884
- Assets
- $544,354
- Liabilities
- $60,264
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
People named in this filing
- Azara Santiago-Rivera (Past Chairperson)
- James L Rodriguez (Past Treasurer)
- Carmen Martinez Lopez (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prepare, support, and advance latinx/a/o/e students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members through higher education to participate, lead and influencein our society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Professional development programs which include a graduate fellowship program with 12 graduate students participating. A faculty fellows program - geared to new faculty who are beyond their first year on the tenure-track. The leadership institute - designed for graduate students, administrators, faculty, and decision-makers considering a career advancement in higher education. Webinars - monthly online seminars that enable individuals to stay up-to-date on current trends and topics and engage in live learning experiences. Cigarroa - the medical/stem lecture spotlights a prominent, established scholar, leader, or icon in the medical or science disciplines and benefits conference participants attending in person.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.7%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 40.7%; rating input score 41
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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; 63rd 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.7% of revenue deployed · 40.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $153K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.