Farmworker Justice Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521196708
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022935420
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,100,293
- Expenses
- $2,202,077
- Assets
- $1,369,680
- Liabilities
- $219,178
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RONALD ESTRADA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RONALD ESTRADA (CEO): $221,546 total reported compensation
- ALEXIS GUILD (VP OF STRATEGY AND PROGRAMS): $168,914 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Farmworker justice fund, inc. Is a non-profit corporation established under the laws of the district of columbia. Its mission is to empower farmworkers to improve their wages, working conditions, occupational safety, health, immigration status, and access to justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Health projects: farmworker justice works to prevent illness and injury in farmworker communities by training health personnel on meeting the special needs of farmworkers, establishing health promotion programs, sponsoring occupational safety and health trainings, bringing the public's attention to solutions to dangerous working conditions, advocating in congress and government agencies for stronger occupational safety protections, filing lawsuits against government agencies that violate their legal obligations, respond to the covid-19 pandemic by providing prevention and safety information, arranging for distribution of face masks, and advocating in state and federal agencies for strong safety and health standards.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -4.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 59.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $222K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.