El Centro Poder Y Accion
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853020297
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5052461627
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,452
- Expenses
- $211,551
- Assets
- $42,804
- Liabilities
- $1,345
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VANESSA GONZALEZ (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RACHEL LAZAR (EXECUTIVE DI)
- VANESSA GONZALEZ (PRESIDENT)
- SANDRA TREJO (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
El centro poder y accion is an albuquerque-based civil rights and workers' justice organization that advocates for just working conditions and policies that ensure all new mexicans' have the opportunity to thrive. We focus on growing the power of our community through policy advocacy, voter education, and voter mobilization.
What it reported doing in 2024
As a nascent 501c4, el centro poder y accion is developing a community- driven endorsement process and is engaging in policy advocacy for an equitable economy, workers' protections, and an inclusive economy. In addition, since 2021 el centro has engaged in both voter education and get out the vote campaigns.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $198K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.