Latino Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731675402
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032836881
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,415,645
Expenses
$24,747,108
Assets
$36,145,803
Liabilities
$3,212,467

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • TONY DEFALCO (Executive Dir.): $202,200 total reported compensation
  • SADIE FIGUEROA (DEP DIR PROGRAMS): $180,721 total reported compensation
  • EVA MARIBONA (DEP DIR CULT & OPS): $164,337 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Latine-led education organization that lifts up youth and families to reach their full potential; grounded in culturally-specific practices and services and rooted in Latine community self-determination (meaningful participation in decisions affecting their lives and families). Latino Network was founded in 1996 by community leaders who grew concerned about the lack of adequate resources to meet the needs of the growing Latino community. Since that time, we have evolved to become an organization that also encompasses transformational programs aimed at educating and empowering the Latine community of Multnomah County. Low achievement scores, youth violence, and high dropout rates undermine the Latine community’s potential. We address these issues by promoting early literacy, encouraging parent involvement, working with gang-involved and adjudicated youth and families, and providing...

What it reported doing in 2024

Other programs Oregon latino agenda for action (olaa) is an effort convened by Oregon consensus of portland state university to bring together a broad range of representatives from the latino community throughout Oregon to collaborate in developing an Oregon latino agenda for action to establish statewide strategic priorities for meeting the over-arching needs of the growing number of latino families in Oregon. Arts and culture: the organization operates afterschool arts programming for latino youth to build self-esteem, creative skills, and connect with their culture. Studio latino is an afterschool program which uses arts and culture to build student success and prevent youth and gang violence. Studio latino teaches youth traditional and contemporary art and movement classes from mariachi music to hip hop to zumba every day. Additionally, latino network operates a ballet troupe, known as ballet folklrico. The ballet honors and promotes mexican culture, heritage, and identity through traditional dance classes for youth 3-18 and performances for the community.

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

SUPPORTED - 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: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.3%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $46.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • 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: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 66.3% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $21.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $202K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $747K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.