Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237380570
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2109220225
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Public, Societal Benefit
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $716,595
- Expenses
- $691,647
- Assets
- $55,849
- Liabilities
- $422,935
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lydia Camarillo (President)
- Irma Munoz (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lydia Camarillo (President): $82,630 total reported compensation
- Patricia Gonzales (Employee): $82,370 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SouthwestVoter Registration Education Project To empower Latinos and other minorities by increasing their participation in the American democratic process.
What it reported doing in 2024
SVREP opened the 2024 cycle with plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary, convening community members to discuss and plan the 50th Celebration dinners. The plans included designing and unveiling SVREPs new logo. The celebration at the San Antonio and Los Angeles dinners commemorated the vision, dedication, and progress SVREP has made on behalf of the Latino community over the past half-century. SVREP executed its plans for voter registration and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts for the Presidential elections. With a team of over 100, hired for a few weeks during the GOVT phase, SVREP registered 250,000 Latino voters, contacted 150,000 Latino voters, and outreached to over 500,000 Latino voters for the November 5, 2024 elections. The Latino voters were contacted with live contact, paid radio and social media, email, and text messages. SVREP continued to enjoy support from the community with over 120 volunteers helping SVREP with nonpartisan activities. SVREP registered to vote 250,000 Latino voters with in-person and online voter registration drives in our targeted states in Arizona, California, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. SVREP contacted Latino voters for the general election in Arizona (100,000), California (250,000), Colorado (25,000), Georgia (52,000), Nevada (25,000), and Texas (500,000) with live and digital strategies. Additionally, SVREP outreached to voters with social media efforts. For the Los Angeles County elections, SVREP contacted over 250,000 Latino households of voters through canvassing and phone banking, paid radio and social media ads, texting, and email messages. These voters were contacted with 3 live contacts. Additionally, SVREP registered family members of the Latino voters targeted with direct live contacts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.6%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 42.1%; rating input score 42
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.57; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.6% of revenue deployed · 42.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $291K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.