Miami Foreign Trade Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592557450
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3054710737
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,869
- Expenses
- $51,948
- Assets
- $5,080
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gisella Bustillos Wong (Vice President, Secretary, Responsible Agent)
People named in this filing
- Gisella Bustillos Wong (Vice President, Secretary, Responsible Agent)
- Enrique Lopez-Calleja (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The miami foreign trade association, inc. Dba Florida foreign trade association (ffta) is a non-profit trade organization (501-c-6) that represents the most diverse group of individuals and companies in the foreign trade market. Ffta provides a forum where information and concepts are freely exchanged, as well as the opportunity to directly participate in foreign trade missions, business luncheons, and networking events, where community leaders and professionals address the members and their guests on topics related to their fields. The organization also organized training programs, workshops, and seminars designated to train beginners and/or executives in the export and import sector and other related topics.
What it reported doing in 2025
FFTA as a pioneer of the inbound trade missions program established the program "TRADE-USA" which promotes American products and/or services to foreign buyers and US local businesses that sell their products and services. The program promotes bilateral international trade and investments by working together with American Chambers of Commerce, and other governmental entities such as ports, airports, counties, cities, and private partners generating revenue for the State of Florida by facilitating business matchmaking business meetings between local and foreign companies during trade missions. In Y2025, FFTA was able to organize an inbound trade mission from the Dominican Republic including one-on-one business meetings, presentations for facilitation of cargo and doing business with the US, including tours & presentation to ITC Miami-Dade County, City of Doral, Select Florida, Miami International Airport, USDA-APHIS, Port Everglades, Crowley, Interport. One outbound trade mission to the Dominican Republic scheduled business meeting s by AMCHAM DR, tour to Port of Rio Haina and tour to Free Zones and Caribtrans. FFTA has continued providing training programs and offering scholarship Certificates from Grow with Google and IBM Skills to benefit members, minority individuals and small and medium-sized companies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.