Maxcen Housing Society Puerto Rico Branch Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 660881277
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Fajardo, PR, USA
- Phone
- 8889594159
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,489
- Expenses
- $98,092
- Assets
- $99,489
- Liabilities
- $98,092
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jean-Maxcene Decarde (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jean-Maxcene Decarde (CEO): $5,188 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Offers free online and formal tutoring on housing development and education services and works to create affordable rental and homeownership opportunities and to provide programming related to youth, adult financial literacy and people with disabilities, home buyer education and counselling, and entrepreneurship and job training for low income families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maxcen Housing Society Inc., Puerto Rico Branch foster and promote community-wide interest and involvement in the problems associated with the underdevelopment of affordable housing, and towards that goal to sponsor and participate in public symposium, and by any other means to cooperate with, encourage and contribute to the efforts of such parties in the accomplishment of such purposes. Improved understanding of the relationship between a residential exposure and illness or injury of children or other vulnerable populations
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.6%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: 1.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.99; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.