Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042596270
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6178647600
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,850,631
- Expenses
- $4,562,997
- Assets
- $6,320,024
- Liabilities
- $1,779,725
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA DE OLIVEIRA (PRESIDENT)
- EDNA LEITH MA (VICE - PRESIDENT)
- PAULO PINTO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PAULO PINTO (CEO): $185,781 total reported compensation
- ALIRIO PEREIRA (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $120,920 total reported compensation
- LYNDA PARIS (CFO): $102,620 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to improve the lives of portuguese speakers in Massachusetts and help them become contributing, active participants in american society while maintaining a strong ethnic identity and a sense of community.we work with and for the brazilian, cabo verdean, portuguese and other portuguese-speaking communities to increase access and remove barriers to health, education and social services through direct services, advocacy, leadership, and community development.
What it reported doing in 2024
Immigrant integration services, citizenship assistance, elder services including senior centers, employement and career assistance, and court referred services, as well as a variety of other services to portuguese speakers of all backgrounds and others. Includes program service fee revenue of $86,852 and third-party billing revenue of $14,342 for a total of $101,194.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 89% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 63rd 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $186K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.