Primos Dallas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830847453
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2145068477
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,463
- Expenses
- $176,166
- Assets
- $106,946
- Liabilities
- $9,961
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Angela Carrales (Chair)
- Colibri Morales (Treasurer)
- Esmeralda Martinez (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primos empowers students and their families to tackle any challenge through mentoring and exposure opportunities. Our vision is to create a community of young Latinos ready to impact the world positively!
What it reported doing in 2025
Primos Dallas (Primos) is a 501(c)(3) private nonprofit mentoring organization based in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas that pairs young Latino students with Latino professionals. Established in 2018, Primos' mission is to empower students and their families to tackle any challenge through mentoring and exposure opportunities. Primos' goal is to help students determine their post-high school path whether that path leads to college, vocational training, or career entrance. Primos supports students in two ways: mentoring and college/career training. Primos' mentees participate in a one-on-one yearlong mentoring relationship. Because relation and family are central to the Latino family experience, Primos builds a family foundation into its mentoring experience, inviting the family unit to become a part of the mentoring experience. Focusing on family-like relationships allows the students to thrive in many different environments, while also allowing the mentor to connect in a meaningful way. Primos currently serves 85 students in our mentoring program. Beyond mentoring, Primos also provides students and their families with college and career training. This training includes workshops, links to internships, college visits, and corporate site visits. Workshop topics include goal setting, networking, financial aid, preparing strong resumes, interview skills, LinkedIn development, and career exposure. Workshops help students and their families to build a foundation for college entrance, workforce development, and college completion. Additionally, Primos provided hands-on experience for students by visiting college campuses across Texas such as Texas State University, the University of Houston, and Texas A&M University. Primos also takes students to corporate offices where they can learn first-hand about a variety of career paths from such companies as: MoneyGram, VistraCorp, and the Hall Group. This combined effort of mentoring and college/career training allows students to develop their interests and find a post-high school path.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -41.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.