Casa Guadalupe Retreat House

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832140066
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
El Paso, TX, USA
Phone
9153427859
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$836,382
Expenses
$876,728
Assets
$192,644
Liabilities
$131,697

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VERONICA RAYAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • VERONICA RAYAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $7,417 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Casa guadalupe retreat house is a diocesan center that offers retreats and various programs for spiritual renewal and growth. Additional programs focus on the integral development of persons seeking greater growth in their faith journey. All services are offered in both english and spanish. These included are among the principal programs: a. Retreats for large and small groups as well as for individuals b. Prayer days in solitude c. Retreats for spiritual movements: knights of columbus, night adoration, etc d. Youth and young adult's retreats e. Youth summer camps f. Youth confirmation retreats g. Silent retreats for priests h. Ignatian, franciscan based spirituality retreats i. Marriage and family life, marriage encounter j. Retroville retreats k. Love strong couple's retreats l. Advent and lent retreats m. Workshops, seminars: social justice, mission, theology, ecology, evangelization, pastoral ministry, marian spirituality, family life n. Extension society immersion reflections o. P

What it reported doing in 2025

Casa guadalupe retreat provides a space for parishes to offer a weekend catholic retreat experience. Parish teams prepare and facilitate the retreat (95% are acts retreats) and we provide a space to host the retreat. We offer hospitality in the form of lodging, meals, conference room, and sacred spaces for the parish teams to have their weekend retreat.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -4.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $679K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.