Puentes Advocacy Counseling & Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474986999
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Burien, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2069206933
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,477
- Expenses
- $72,477
- Assets
- $9,462
- Liabilities
- $2,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maria-Jose Soerens (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Maria-Jose Soerens (Executive Director)
- Sandy Restrepo (Board Member)
- Angeles Solis (Board Member)
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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Relief of undocumented migrants and their families as they struggle under a broken immigration system. Such relief will be carried out through the mobilizing of mental health resources, including but not limited to education and advocacy; we create innovative therapeutic spaces to promote social healing, the recovery of social agency, and engage community members to work towards immigration justice in the U.S.
What it reported doing in 2015
From June to December of 2015 we provided over 600 hours in pro-bono clinical services including the performance of psychological assessments for immigration cases. We visited migrants in detention, provided support to their families, and mobilized grassroots efforts on behalf of detainees. We created a community led Radical Leadership program that promotes the leadership abilities of underserved women of color. Participants engaged in weekly meetings where they discussed issues of concern in their communities including gentrification, neighborhood home pollutants, and more. The participants organized and led the first Radical Leadership retreat in 2015. We mobilized a campaign to help immigrants struggling with housing issues and participated in advocacy efforts in collaboration with other immigrant rights organizations. In addition we created a training for graduate students and mental health professionals to provide forensic assessments in immigration court. We also provided consulting to attorneys on issues related to working with victims of interpersonal violence and presented in graduate schools of Law in this matter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.