Latina Sweat Cares
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991616122
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8623010756
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $252,057
- Expenses
- $165,910
- Assets
- $86,691
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Margarita Quinones Pena (President)
- Vanessa Tirado (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Margarita Quinones Pena (President): $7,200 total reported compensation
- Amayrani Nunez (Director): $3,785 total reported compensation
- Veronica Quinones (Operations Director): $1,995 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Latina Sweat Cares makes yoga and holistic wellness accessible to all centered on the Latina community of Chicagos Southwest Side: free and low-cost community classes a Yoga Alliance-certified 200-hour teacher training with scholarships community wellness events free mental health programming including a mens therapy group instructor mentorship and reentry programming for formerly incarcerated individuals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Free donation-based and low-cost yoga and wellness classes across Chicagos Southwest Side and from September 2025 at the organizations first studio home at 949 W 16th St in Pilsen. Programming included the winter and spring free class series approximately 36 classes per week at peak summer programming and an ongoing weekly studio schedule with thousands of registrations across the year. Classes are taught by paid community instructors most of them program alumnae.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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
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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.1%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $126.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.1% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.