International Esperanza Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815106545
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9723480172
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,935,618
- Expenses
- $2,497,705
- Assets
- $1,791,756
- Liabilities
- $78,697
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michelle Hollaender (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Allen Roeseler (COO): $103,832 total reported compensation
- Michelle Hollaender (CEO): $101,032 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
International Esperanza Project (IEP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of families in Guatemala through sustainable, community-driven programs focused on homes, health, and education. Founded on the belief that lasting change begins with dignity and opportunity, IEP partners with local communities to address some of the most critical barriers families face. Through its three core pillars: Impacting Homes, Impacting Health, and Impacting Education, IEP implements practical, long-term solutions that strengthen communities from the inside out through lasting improvements to homes, healthcare, and education, so families can realize the future they hope for.
What it reported doing in 2025
IMPACTING EDUCATION In 2025, our EC-12 school program, which spans early childhood education through high school, educated 308 students. The program provided each student with essential resources such as school supplies, textbooks, extracurricular activities, and technology. To address learning deficiencies, we offered tutoring classes through the BookTuk Mobile Education program, which includes books and teachers. Additionally, we have an Adult Trade Training Program that provides vocational training for men and women, aiming to promote financial independence and empower individuals to build a brighter future. Through this program, we granted 1,380 certificates to adult students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.