Caminos De Acción

Legal name: Caminos De Accion

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455060383
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Lander, WY, USA
Phone
3073496945
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,970
Expenses
$84,048
Assets
$31,657
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Laura Hastings Moline (President)
  • Violeta Rodriguez Stauffer (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Laura Hastings Moline (President)
  • Violeta Rodriguez Stauffer (Vice President)
  • Iris Aragon (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Caminos de Acción works in solidarity with rural communities in La Paz, El Salvador to address locally identified challenges, empowering individuals and transforming their communities through education, sustainable agriculture, and access to clean water and sanitation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Knowledge is Power Scholarship and Leadership Program: Caminos de Accion works with a local nonprofit in El Salvador called CIS (Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad) to provide scholarships and services in the community of Los Tehuistes, La Paz. $38,872.01 were granted to 10 high school and 11 university scholarship recipients. University students received $200/month for their tuition and expenses, while high school students received $100 per month. While these scholarships served 16 students directly, they also highly impacted the families of these 16 students. As for services for the students in the program, we provide (via CIS) wifi, mental health services, tutoring, educational materials, program t-shirts, materials for an Environmental Awareness school run by scholarship recipients, and a scholarship student mentor. We also reimburse CIS to hire our director to run this program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 29.2%; rating input score 29

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,591.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 29.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.