Chavez Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841561105
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pueblo, CO, United States
- Phone
- (719) 546-6263
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,735,314
- Expenses
- $35,904,109
- Assets
- $73,563,555
- Liabilities
- $83,758,725
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Angela Giron (President)
- Matt Garcia (Vice President)
- Richard Duran (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Angela Giron (President)
- Matt Garcia (Vice President)
- Don Ortega (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chavez Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy is the best school of choice to develop college ready students who will become scholars, leaders of great character, and productive citizens of the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kindergarten through 12th grade public school providing all standard programs offered by other public schools benefiting approximately 996?? students in fiscal year 2024-2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 78% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.8%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 11
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -181.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 31.8% of revenue deployed · 11.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 32/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.