Mi Casa Resource Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
840867773
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
3035731302
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,015,130
Expenses
$3,428,729
Assets
$8,197,917
Liabilities
$154,251

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANGELES ORTEGA (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANGELES ORTEGA (CEO): $174,935 total reported compensation
  • CRIS CARDENAS (DIRECTOR OF): $104,915 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Career pathways career pathways trains, supports, and connects low-income jobseekers to high-demand careers that meet their personal and professional needs. With mi casa support, participants gain the education and skills needed to generate income and move up career ladders. The framework of career pathways includes knowledge and skill building, industry-specific collaboration, educational attainment, confidence and sustainable success, systemic equity, and digital access and technology. Career pathways offers a holistic approach that addresses the person and professional needs of low-income community members. With multiple entry points that include navigation, coaching, training, and postsecondary education, mi casa creates pathways to career placements and advancement. Mi casas strength-based career coaching offers one-on-one support throughout the job search and employment process. Career pathways offers four training pathways. Banking essentials training prepares participants for high-demand employment in the banking and financial sector. Medical office administration training prepares participants for administrative roles in healthcare, with a focus on hipaa, communication, and office procedures. Human resources (hr) training introduces key human resource concepts including Colorado employment law, ethics, recruiting, benefits, and workplace safety. Finally, mi casa offers 14 industry-recognized google professional certifications. Mi casa partners with csu global, msu denver, arapahoe community college, and red rocks community college to link participants to post-secondary education through challenge exams participants earning college credit through mi casa technical skills training. Career pathways hosts quarterly coalition meetings (sector based partnership meetings) that include employers, higher learning institutions, and systemwide stakeholders that provide program design input, employer and higher learning institution pipeline and alignment, and continuous improvement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $106K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.