Bilingual Education for Central America

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
522374444
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
6468202322
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$114,191
Expenses
$147,828
Assets
$43,862
Liabilities
$19

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DORCAS CARVAJAL (CHAIR)
  • LARA BRYFONSKI (DIRECTOR)
  • MICHAEL LAFFEY (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Bilingual education for central america recruits, trains, and supports english-speaking volunteer teachers to staff a network of community-run bilingual schools in honduras that serve more than 500 primarily low-income students and their families.

What it reported doing in 2025

School year program in 2025 beca provided a high-quality bilingual education to more than 500 students via our partnerships and intensive ongoing professional development support and training for our teachers. Beca serves financially marginalized students at our partner schools san jeronimo bilingual school in cofradia honduras and santa monica bilingual school in nearby vida nueva honduras. The beca model is built on a partnership among hondurans committed to high-quality progressive education and dedicated volunteer teachers from honduras north america and around the globe. The partnership results in a high-quality bilingual education that is accessible to all members of the community and a transformative experience for our volunteers. Note that while beca does not include in-kind labor donated by our volunteers in this filing the human investment in our work is substantial

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -29.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $118K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.