Rcma

Legal name: Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591221966
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2021
Location
Immokalee, FL, USA
Phone
2396583560
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,952,687
Expenses
$99,323,124
Assets
$100,504,814
Liabilities
$16,383,175

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

37 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LINDA MILES ADAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL T BAYER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CATALINA SEPULVEDA (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • ISABEL GARCIA VARGAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KATHY MARIE VARGAS (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ISABEL GARCIA VARGAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $222,216 total reported compensation
  • CATALINA SEPULVEDA (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $172,851 total reported compensation
  • KATHY MARIE VARGAS (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $144,263 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

RCMA opens doors to opportunities through quality child care and education from crib to high school and beyond. Teachers use this information in report form to share with parents, plan learning activities, and scaffold children’s learning. At center, area, and statewide levels these aggregated reports allow RCMA to plan for teacher training, focus on curriculum areas, and to see progress over time in. Parent reports are shared during home visits and parent conferences. Teachers provide home activities to engage parents in teaching and learning at home. The parent teacher partnership supports a child to develop age appropriate skills and follow their interests. Dual Language Learners.

What it reported doing in 2024

Food service program - to provide basic food and nutrition for all children served in our centers. Immigration assistance program: over 80% of the families rcma serves are employed in the agricultural sector. A significant percentage of those families migrate and the majority are foreign-born. All of our families are significantly impacted by immigration policy and enforcement. Rcma has developed a multi-faceted immigration support program that builds on existing programs and services. Rcma's immigration program includes leadership training and development, advocacy, immigration support services and public education campaigns. Other programs: community learning centers rcma's community learning centers strive to bring free or affordable quality education to rural low-income communities using technology and caring, culturally sensitive teachers and tutors. Through community learning centers, rcma provides basic education services to adults who have not completed their basic education studies, either in u.s. Schools or in mexico. The community learning centers provide three levels of studies --literacy (basic reading and writing), primary (elementary) and secondary (middle school) - and accredits students according to the standards set by the ministry of public education in mexico. Students also can earn their Florida general equivalency diploma. Out of school services rcma provides out of school services to approximately 500 school age children. These services are provided in several counties in partnership with the hillsborough county school district, the homestead housing authority and rcma charter schools. The primary components of the services provided include tutoring, homework help, leadership development and recreational activities. Teen parent program when a teenager becomes pregnant, both she and her baby face even greater challenges at home and school. Key goals of rcma's teen parent program are to educate and support the teen mothers to be and promote job skills that will help them achieve financial independence. Rcma staff also works closely with collaborating agencies to assure pregnant teens receive prenatal and post-partum services and provides quality child care for newborns of high school students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 81% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $59.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $87.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $222K · 37 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.