La Puerta
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 365034130
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Waco, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2543014062
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $348,911
- Expenses
- $229,883
- Assets
- $202,164
- Liabilities
- $2,988
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HECTOR SABIDO (PRESIDENT)
- ERIC TERRAZAS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ISRAEL LOCHAMIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ISRAEL LOCHAMIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $38,459 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
La puerta is a christian based ministry, the focus of which is to serve the spanish-speaking community. La puerta seeks to raise awareness of social and community resources including legal, educational, mental health, medical care and otherwise in the spanish-speaking community, to assist spanish speakers to connect with the community and to take advantage of available services and resources, while ministering to spanish speakers and opening doors to them for discipleship.
What it reported doing in 2025
Counseling - individual and group: therapy sessions are scheduled according to the needs of the individual; group sessions are held once weekly
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.8%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 55.8%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.1%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.8% of revenue deployed · 55.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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 37/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.