La Casa De Don Pedro Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237249368
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9734828312
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,382,028
- Expenses
- $23,546,535
- Assets
- $21,184,826
- Liabilities
- $10,001,237
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER T ROSARIO (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- RICHARD W ROPER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER T ROSARIO (PRESIDENT/CEO): $239,172 total reported compensation
- GARFIELD E GRANT (VP FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION): $175,102 total reported compensation
- ROSALINA MELENDEZ (VP OF PROGRAMS): $172,379 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
La casa de don pedro's mission is to foster self-sufficiency, empowerment, and neighborhood revitalization.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community improvement program - this program is primarily comprised of two components, the low-income home energy assistance program (home energy) and the weatherization assistance program (weatherization). The home energy program provides payment assistance for income eligible individuals throughout essex county. The weatherization program provides assistance for eligible homeowners, landlords, and tenants with home improvements related energy conservation measures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $239K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.