Guadalupe Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
592617151
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Immokalee, FL, USA
Phone
2396577711
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,992,372
Expenses
$14,766,183
Assets
$47,795,133
Liabilities
$3,645,695

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dawn Montecalvo (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Dawn Montecalvo (President): $322,626 total reported compensation
  • Kelly Krupp (VP of Philanthropy): $184,278 total reported compensation
  • Robert Spano (VP of Programs): $171,305 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Organization's mission is to break the cycle of poverty through education for the children of Immokalee.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Early Childhood Education Program is nationally accredited by NAEYC. The program currently serves 550 children from 6 weeks through age 5. The ECE program operates year round, five days per week from 7 AM until 5:30 PM in 5 locations. To monitor the success of the program, track student improvements and identify developmental delays, Guadalupe Center conducts regular evaluations. Research based evaluation instruments are used including Teaching Strategies Gold (aligned with the Creative Curriculum), the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and the Office of Early Learning AP1, AP2 and AP3 evaluations. Teaching Strategies Gold Assessments measure growth in the areas of social, emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy and mathematics. Guadalupe Centers program provides developmentally appropriate learning activities that incorporate language, literacy, math, science, technology, motor skills and art into the students day. This helps prepare the students for success in school. Breakfast, lunch and snack as well as school supplies are provided for all students. In addition, a once-weekly two-hour Smart Start offers more than 30 parents and children with a program aimed at facilitating in-home learning.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.24; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $323K · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.