Fundacion Manos Juntas

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731523135
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2021
Location
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Phone
4054131039
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$710,997
Expenses
$734,144
Assets
$428,377
Liabilities
$314,245

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jackson Higginbottom (Vice President)
  • Boyd Shook (President Medical Director)

People named in this filing

  • Jennifer Pham (Director)
  • Lee Smith (Secretary)
  • Guadalupe Zulker (Member)

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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Mission of this Organization is to provide free healthcare to needy individuals in the United States and Central America. Additionally, this organization provices educational assistance to students pursuing advanced educational programs in Central America.

What it reported doing in 2021

Provide grant funds to fundeci to support ongoing educational scholarship programs. Several students received scholarships to pursue advanced educational programs in universities and technical schools in Nicaragua.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2,031.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 11th 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: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: -3.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 40% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $685K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.