Partnership for Central America Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871229165
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
8185150895
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$830,896
Expenses
$1,416,140
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • EMILY L MYERS (DIR. OF OPER): $220,620 total reported compensation
  • ANN MARIE BROUILLETE (INTERIM EXEC): $177,303 total reported compensation
  • JONATHAN FANTINI (FORMER ED): $158,668 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Pca seeks to improve economic conditions of the poor and vulnerable in el salvador, guatemala, and honduras ("region"). Pca works to elevate the needs of the poor and disadvantaged in the region and generate the will and resources to achieve poverty reduction in the region. In order to achieve the above goals, pca helps identify opportunities for investment and for development projects in high-need geographies in the region and coordinate across government, non-profits, and private companies. In doing so, pca uses its network and in-house expertise regarding the needs of the poor in the region to ensure projects have maximum poverty reduction impact. Pca advocates with private companies in the u.s. And in the region to provide additional investment in areas that will result in benefits to the poor and vulnerable populations across the region.

What it reported doing in 2025

Partnership for central america inc has mobilized over 4.2b in private sector investment commitments for the region, with over 1b already deployed. This represents 400m in manufacturing investments, creating over 73,000 new jobs and enabling over 1 million individuals to have access to bank accounts or credits. 200 million has been invested to advance agricultural capacity building and climate adaptation; over 1 million individuals have been brought into the formal economy; 4 million people connected to the internet; and over 488,000 learners trained through skilling programs. The disaster risk financing consortium was launched with the world bank to insure 2m farmers and over 115m committed to achieve gender parity across the region's top 30 companies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 1
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 67.8%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -70.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 39.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -35.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 67.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $960K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $221K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.