Guatemala Service Projects Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814172211
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Oconomowoc, WI, USA
- Phone
- 2624688445
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $157,179
- Expenses
- $211,856
- Assets
- $27,618
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer B Demar (President and Treasurer)
- Richard Trent Faith (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer B Demar (President and Treasurer)
- Richard Trent Faith (Vice-President)
- Michael Margolies (Secretary)
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
We provide resources to improve health, nutrition and educational outcomes of impoverished people in Guatemala. We work directly with community leaders who tell us about their most pressing needs. We then collaborate with them to plan, fund and deliver projects to meet those needs. Each project jumpstarts improvements and provides a clear vision for brighter tomorrows.
What it reported doing in 2025
CORE MISSION: Under the direction of a Guatemalan Project Manager and Community Liaison, we supported a chicken donation project, a community potable water project, community and family gardens, food relief, an entrepreneurship program, school libraries and computer labs, school supplies, water filters and low-emission fuel-efficient stoves. Some of our major projects at schools included the construction of a kitchen and bathrooms, adding window grates, providing musical instruments, and installing playground equipment.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $50.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: -34.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 9; 9th 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: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $186K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.