Guiding Star

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800776471
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Phone
5052470096
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$75,853
Expenses
$86,415
Assets
$780
Liabilities
$25,359

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROSEMARIE E SANCHEZ (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEVE GROLL (DIRECTOR)
  • MICHAEL SANCHEZ (DIRECTOR)
  • ROSEMARIE E SANCHEZ (PRESIDENT)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Guiding star provides guardianship, conservatorship and consulting services to meet health care needs for veterans.

What it reported doing in 2024

Guiding star assists the community's veterans who are unable to manage their own benefit checks.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. 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: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 43

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 32.51; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 35.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 43.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.