Hispanos Unidos De Buffalo
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161243094
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168567110
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,427,659
- Expenses
- $4,275,844
- Assets
- $3,024,658
- Liabilities
- $1,170,231
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jose A Rodriguez (CLO/Executive Vice President)
- Lymaris Albors (CEO)
- Raul Russi (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Raul Russi (President): $1,205,065 total reported compensation
- Lymaris Albors (CEO): $1,099,437 total reported compensation
- Jose A Rodriguez (CLO/Executive Vice President): $644,481 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Respond to economic, social, educational, and cultural needs of hispanic/latinos in western new york through bilingual, bicultural services that promote self-sufficiency and improve quality of life.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides a variety of services to the local community, including affordable housing, which provides housing for low income seniors. They also provide rapid re-housing, which supports low-income families living in shelters due to domestic violence. The organization also provides behavioral health services, which is substance use treatment . Another service the organization provides is health homes, which is bilingual support and guidance to manage a person's health care and wellness. They also provide older adult services, which include a recreational senior program, stay fit dining program, and senior social day care program. The organization also provides preventive services, which is supportive and rehabilitative servicces to families in order to avoid disruption to the family unit/or foster care placement. The organization also provides nutrition program services, which tackles food insecurity and hunger in the Buffalo area by providing access to emergency food and information resources. The organization also provides domestic violence services, which inclues safety planning, case management, advocacy, referrals to shelters and housing alternatives, non-clinical counseling, and assistance with navigation of the court system. Some of the other services the organization provides includes youth and family services, educational and vocational services.
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 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- 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: 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 89 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.