Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860601404
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6022530547
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,121
- Expenses
- $83,193
- Assets
- $239,493
- Liabilities
- $2,216
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Damian Preciado (Executive Director)
- Adriana Genco (President)
- Arturo Gonzalez (Vice-President)
Highest reported compensation
- Damian Preciado (Executive Director): $19,608 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 mission of Los Abogados is to develop, empower, and support the Latino community through the advancement of the legal profession.
What it reported doing in 2025
Los Abogados prides itself on its long standing relationships with the Latino student organizations at both Arizona law schools, the Chicago Latino Law Student Association, CLLSA, at the Sandra Day OConnor College of Law and the Latino Law Student Association, LLSA, at the James E. Rogers College of Law. In addition to our mentorship program, which pairs attorney mentors with law students in both organizations, Los Abogados routinely donates money to support each groups endeavors. Other funding contributed by Los Abogados is used by the groups to provide their members with scholarships for items such as books and bar exam prep course fees. In addition, Los Abogados provided funding so that CLLSA and LLSA may host social and networking events. Attendance at these events ranges from 10 to over 30 law students and it is important for the development and networking. The Pipeline Fellowship program provides a free Blueprint prep course to ten aspiring law students who have shown commitment to service in the Latino community and has resulted in an average 10 point increase in LSAT scores leading to our students acceptance into prestigious law schools across the country and awarding of numerous scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.3%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.88; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 131.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.3% of revenue deployed · 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 47/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.