Portuguese Organization for Social Services and Opportunities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510187655
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082930877
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,283,651
- Expenses
- $2,278,344
- Assets
- $1,772,508
- Liabilities
- $144,701
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMANUEL DE SOUSA (PRESIDENT)
- VICKY MACHADO (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- ELSA OLIVEIRA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELSA OLIVEIRA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $99,571 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Posso is a community-led non-profit organization, and at the heart of its mission is a commitment to support the health, well-being and independence of migrant populations via our direct services and by serving as a bridge to available resources.
What it reported doing in 2024
Social services supported more than 2,900 individuals and families. Services included translation and transportation, case management, patient navigation, daily wellness checks, health education workshops, blood pressure and vaccine clinics, bingocize, senior walks and beach picnics and exercise and cooking classes. Additional services included an ipad program for older adults, consultations with a licensed social worker, helping clients with various government processes, such as driver's license renewals at the dmv and retirement forms at social security offices, assisting with applications for calfresh, medicare, liheap, etc., and supporting civic engagement through a weekly u.s. Citizenship class, voter registration, and language translation/transportation to election polls.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.