Mca Tech Park Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454664319
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9156132478
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,985,337
- Expenses
- $2,714,366
- Assets
- $24,870,967
- Liabilities
- $19,383,873
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARLOS ORTEGA (CEO AND CFO)
Highest reported compensation
- CARLOS ORTEGA (CEO AND CFO): $258,913 total reported compensation
- XAVIER CARDENAS (SR DIRECTOR. ENGINEERING): $157,187 total reported compensation
- NANCY LOWERY (SR. DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION): $149,968 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be a supporting organization to medical center of the americas foundation, a publicly supported organization, for the development and long-term growth of a vibrant, state-of-the art research park for life sciences and healthcare, beginning with a 60,000-square foot life sciences research and technology building, the cardwell collaborative, as the anchor.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization and the foundation developed a biomedical research facility that houses: (1) medical research and business incubator facilities (2) administration for Texas tech university health sciences center el paso and also the university of Texas health science center at houston, and (3) medical center of the americas foundation offices. The first phase of the development, a 60,000 square foot building known as the cardwell collaborative, which was built to house state-of-the art research and business incubations, was opened in 2016.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.16; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $259K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $117K reported
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.