Grupo Cajola in North America a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872752774
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Morristown, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2015727974
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,351
- Expenses
- $116,260
- Assets
- $36,040
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Briana Nichols (President)
- Diana Crowder (Vice President)
- Caryn Maxim (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Briana Nichols (President)
- Diana Crowder (Vice President)
- Iraida Lopez (Member at Large)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grupo Cajolá in North America's primary mission is to support Asociación Grupo Cajolá in Cajolá (AGCC) a non profit association in Cajolá, Guatemala (Quetzaltenango). AGCC was organized to promote education and economic development in the community of Cajolá, with the goal of eliminating the need for forced migration. Their programs include a scholarship program, preschool, and learning center, along with skills training for two independent businesses.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grupo Cajolá in North America financially supports the programs of Grupo Cajolá in Guatemala. The largest program is their preschool. In 2025 the school provided Reggio Emilia based experiential learning to 33 children. There are 4 teachers, a documentalist, a cook and her helper. When the children reach public school their preparation is highly regarded by the public school teachers. Serving a healthy snack and nutritious lunch along with vitamins and nutritional counseling for the parents helps combat Cajola's 55% child malnutrition statistic. The school is providing employment to those 7 people, an accomplishment in this primarily agricultural but poverty stricken community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.