Hialeah Gardens Ffa Booster Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921126307
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Hialeah Gardens, FL, USA
Phone
3057948195
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Parent/Teacher Group

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,549
Expenses
$24,041
Assets
$2,559
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • YVETTE RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • YVETTE RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT)
  • SELENE CASTILLO (VICE PRESIDE)
  • SAMANTHA LOPEZ (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

Our non-profit organization supports, promotes and encourages participation in events and competitions for all ffa members. The booster club members (parents, advisors, student members) strive each year to make the ffa at hialeah gardens high school a very rewarding experience for the students and members and at the same time an enjoyable experience. The general fund financial support will vary from year to year. However, the funds are historically used for scholarships, capital improvements, recognition banquets & receptions, equipment replacement and maintenance, club travel expenses, senior graduate gifts, seniors signage & banners, and concession stands operations. Hialeah gardens ffa booster club contributes to 12 competitive events - totaling 26 different teams (cde, lde, fair shows with livestock, exhibits at fairs).

What it reported doing in 2025

Hialeah gardens high school ffa club is our local high school chapter affi liated with the national ffa. Our students participate in competitions that are focused on career development, leadership development, and in participating in the showcasing of our livestock/farm animals at the miami-dade youth fair and exposition. The ffa motto is: learning to do, doing to learn, living to serve, serving to live. Following our motto, we provide funding for our students to participate in the competitions, fi eld trips, and any other opportunities that provide them with experiences and education to help them be prepared for the workplace, for higher education, and for being civic minded members of society. Being prepared for participation in as many events as possible for as many students as possible requires our classroom to be the main hub for students, where they can prepare their competition materials, therefore our classroom must be maintained with the proper equipment/materials such as color printer, paper, journals, and books. We, at hialeah gardens high school, also have a farm that has cows, goats, rabbits, chickens, and ducks. These animals have their daily needs to keep them healthy and safe. These animals are the animals that students showcase at our local youth fair. Students maintain the farm by cleaning and disinfecting, monitoring the nutritional needs of every individual animal, maintaining the cages/pens, and in grooming the animals. The inventory of tools for cleaning and for farm maintenance is one of the larger costs for our program and provides our students with the proper animal husbandry skills so that they may properly care for our animals.

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 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

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 50.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.