Foundation for Sustainability and Peacemaking in MesoAmerica

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264683052
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2021
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Round Rock, TX, USA
Phone
5129225931
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$49,951
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Laura Van Metre (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jose I Alas (Executive Dir.)
  • Gilbert Prud'homme (Treasurer)
  • Heather Dubois (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Foundation works to foster sustainable and environmentally sound economic development in Southern Mexico and Central America. This economic development in turn leads to the self-sufficiency of impoverished families, and brings about a culture of peace and sustainability to replace that of poverty and violence. The Foundation provides technical assistance and funds to local organizations in Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama to provide training to members of impoverished, rural communities.

What it reported doing in 2021

Foster sustainable and environmentally sound economic development in Southern Mexico and Central America so that impoverished families may become self-sufficient and so that a culture of peace and sustainability will replace that of poverty and violence.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 1
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.