Cafe Accion
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852340038
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5755201624
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $131,747
- Assets
- $834,168
- Liabilities
- $42,547
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lydia Hammond (President)
People named in this filing
- Lydia Hammond (President)
- Brenda Martinez (Treasurer)
- Elena Campos (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advocate for a culture of support that empowers New Mexicans to act on their own behalf towards a better quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocate for empowerment of New Mexico voters
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 72% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.33; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.