National Center for Us-el Salvador Sister Cities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134018941
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 8054219708
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $207,794
- Expenses
- $203,466
- Assets
- $132,374
- Liabilities
- $78,330
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEIGH BECK (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JOAN BROOKS (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LEIGH BECK (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JOAN BROOKS (CO-PRESIDENT)
- SARAH SILVE DAVILA (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promoting people-to peole solidarity relationships between the united states and el salvador. Our solidarity relationships involve mutual community accompaniment, organizing, education, and fundraising for local community development projects in el salvador. The mutual community accompaniment specifically includes regular meetings between sistering communities, that is, meetings facilitated by staff or volunteers between specific communities in the unites states and el salvador that have maintained communications for decades. There are about twelve cities in the unites states that have a direct relationship with over twelve communities in el salvador. Organizing and education includes bimonthly online events, monthly national team meetings, annual in-person tours in the united states, speaking engagements, and updates about current events on our blog and social media. We have three annual fundraisers to support this work, which includes mailed letters, emails, social media posts, and s
What it reported doing in 2025
Exchange-based educational programs. Includes educational delegations to facilitate understanding of salvadoran rural communities and education tours and meetings within the united states. This furthers our mission and exempt purpose because it promotes solidarity relationships. Percentage of time for this activity is 40%. It is an ongoing activity that we have been doing since we were founded. The activity happens in our locations in the us and in collaboration with our salvadoran partners. Delegations typically range 7-10 days and include 4-12 participants. We have approximately 3-8 delegations each year. During educational tours in the unites states, we typically travel to over 4 cities and hose in-person events at each stop with churches, universities, community organizations, and more. Tours last about 10 days, and each event is 1-2 hours with 10-50 attendees at each event. We have several 1 hour meetings each month for our national teams and bimonthly public online events. There are 5-50 attendees at these events.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $160K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.