Metroplex Civic & Business Association (MCBA)
Legal name: Metroplex Civic & Business Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854335168
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2147835843
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,715,863
- Expenses
- $1,269,669
- Assets
- $198,207
- Liabilities
- $209,741
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUIS DARROUZET - Thru 225 (CEO)
- AMISH GUPTA (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LOUIS DARROUZET - Thru 225 (CEO): $186,321 total reported compensation
- JULIE STRUM (COO): $165,907 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering and mobilizing member company employees to become civically and charitably engaged throughout the Metroplex.
What it reported doing in 2024
MCBA created a portal to track civic and charitable engagement by employees andofficers of member organizations to help facilitate the engagement of employees inlocal charitable causes. Through the portal, MCBA educated member employees on theimportance of civic engagement and made them aware of volunteer and charitableopportunities in the DFW area. MCBA also encouraged employees of memberorganizations to register to vote.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- 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: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 53.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 70% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $186K · 5 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.