Guardianship Program of Dade County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592124958
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Doral, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3055927642
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,512,521
- Expenses
- $6,125,889
- Assets
- $12,018,913
- Liabilities
- $2,701,922
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SERGIO L MENDEZ ESQ (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES VILAR (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARICELA JIMENEZ-RIVERO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CARLOS MCDONALD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS)
Highest reported compensation
- MARICELA JIMENEZ-RIVERO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $157,864 total reported compensation
- JEFF BRODEUR (FORMER CFO): $125,573 total reported compensation
- CAREN LESSER (DIR OF LEGAL): $123,543 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provie guardianship services to incapacitated adults of limited financial means in a caring, competent, respectful manor.
What it reported doing in 2024
The guardianship program of dade county is a non-profit agency incepted in 1980 servicing miami-dade county's most vulnerable residents. In 2025 we served 1,400 clients and assisted them in a full range of care including securing their assets, ensuring their medical care, and attending to their financial and legal needs. Gpdc is the largest and oldest public guardianship organization earning the trust of the 11th judicial circuit from where we are appointed guardian of the frailest elderly, developmentally delayed, and mentally ill adults of miami-dade county.per some of our more recent regularly scheduled audits "the guardianship program of dade county reflected and very well organized and effective program that met or exceeded all contractual and statutory requirements." to add, in 2019 gpdc was named a south Florida top workplace by the sun sentinel. Last, the mayor daniela levine cava, recognized and commemorated us for 40 years of providing exceptional service to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $46.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $158K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.