El Centro Hispano Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
134149424
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
White Plains, NY, USA
Phone
9142890500
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$929,495
Expenses
$814,719
Assets
$6,881,858
Liabilities
$922,807

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CECILIA BIKKAL ESQ (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • HILDA JUDITH AUCAR (EXECUTIVE DI): $42,224 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To assist, support and strengthen the hispanic community, to help them become self-sufficient, and to ease thier transition into thier new culture while maintaining and enriching thier own.

What it reported doing in 2025

Educational: we serve k-12 grade students and offer early literacy instruction for k-3rd graders, computer lab and study skills are offered to our 4th&5th graders, 6th graders receive tutoring and mentoring support. Saturday academy provides tutoring and support for 7th graders and high school students. The homework center provides acedemic support to students k-12 monday-friday from 3:30-5:30. Computers: classes for adult learners are provided who are instructed in three levels of microsoft office software, resulting in a completion certificate. These classes allow adults to qualify for better-paying jobs, help them run thier own business or help parents assist children with computer-related homework. Core programming: our office provides referral services, including housing and job listings, and other community resources to individuals, who came to the center. We provide translations services of documents, phone calls to doctors, scheduling of appointments and other requested services.

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 95% 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

STRONG - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $23.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th 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; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.45; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $673K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.