Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751394176
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,075,677
- Expenses
- $1,074,792
- Assets
- $217,999
- Liabilities
- $382,288
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICARDO ORTIZ (President CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RICARDO ORTIZ (President CEO): $109,453 total reported compensation
- GABRIELA B CARVALLO (VP Business Program): $91,328 total reported compensation
- DIANA FLORES (VP of Strategic Unit): $89,248 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 grow and support the hispanic business community in north Texas.
What it reported doing in 2025
GDHCC, in partnership with Dallas County, is offering the ScaleUp Accelerator, a program available to entrepreneurs who would like to take their businesses to the next level. The program, supported by Dallas County, offers intensive training courses and one-on-one business advising from subject matter experts in different areas of business management. ? The main objective of the ScaleUp Accelerator program is to help entrepreneurs grow and/or sustain their businesses by implementing Successful business management methods, technology, access to capital and digital marketing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.8%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 4
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.75; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -62.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.8% of revenue deployed · 3.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.