Operación San Andrés

Legal name: Operacion San Andres

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841679407
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
+1 (832) 713-7122
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$429,157
Expenses
$449,424
Assets
$1,334,012
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JOHN T SPOEDE (DIRECTOR)
  • RUTH CAMPOS (DIRECTOR)
  • VINSON C SMITH (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our Mission To alleviate the effects of poverty in Peru by transforming families through the love of Christ. Operación San Andrés approaches this work with the passion of a dream, the discipline owed a business, and the holiness of a ministry. We feel called to reveal and address injustice, oppression, and suffering. At the same time, we strive to embrace the optimism of our calling. We work to make helpful, data-driven decisions about how, where, and when to invest our efforts and resources. We realize that sustainable and meaningful changes take more than a generation. Knowing that progress requires action, we're willing to admit mistakes and make course-corrections if needed. Our prayer i.

What it reported doing in 2025

The problem of food insecurity for families in poor areas of peru was exacerbated by economic disruptions associated with the global pandemic and continues to be severe due to high inflation for food products. The peruvian non-profit asociacion operacion san andres (osa-peru) responded with programs to alleviate hunger in the community of collique, lima, peru. Grants from operacin san andrs were used to purchase large quantities of non-perishable food items such as rice, sugar, beans, cooking oil, lentils, etc. These food items were distributed to about 65 soup kitchens around collique which provided one nutritious meal for about 4000 people each day. An educational component of the soup kitchen program includes training in habits of healthy living, nutrition and christian discipleship. In 2025, osa made enhancements to a project to grow vegetables using hydroponics, which requires minimal amounts of water and selected nutrients, at the los jazmines community. In 2025, osa partnered with the food bank of peru (banco de alimentos) and the adventist development and relief agency (adra) to recover and redistribute usable food from restaurants and wholesale markets.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $436K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.