River Pierce Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760281751
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Ygnacio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9567654144
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $687,798
- Expenses
- $300,790
- Assets
- $1,995,200
- Liabilities
- $154,171
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Adams (President)
- Jose Angel Perez (Vice President)
- Christopher Rincon (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Mike Casey (Member)
- Lesley Clark (Member)
- Carlos Flores (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Preserve colonial character of historic San Ygnacio by restoring the Trevino-Uribe Rancho, a National Historic Landmark built in 1830, the Manuel Sanchez and Guadalupe Martinez residences (1874) and other historic structures, and providing educational programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
River Pierce Foundation works to preserve and make known the colonial character of the historic village of San Ygnacio, TX, a significant element of the farms, ranches, cities and towns that make up the Los Caminos del Rio Heritage Corridor of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Foundation programs and individual contributions from the private sector support the acquisition, preservation, and creative re-use of historic sites, with special emphasis on the early 19th century sandstone complex of the Trevino-Uribe Ranch, sited on a bluff overlooking the Rio Grande River. Designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park System in 1998, and as one of the nations most endangered historic sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the fortified complex is one of the few surviving artifacts of Spanish colonial architecture in South Texas. The River Pierce Foundation provides site access to structures in its care to students of architecture, histor
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.63; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $282K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.