Vallarta Cares Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992651231
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Magnolia, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9365142651
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $220,163
- Expenses
- $193,732
- Assets
- $28,381
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Francie Banuelos Estrada (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Francie Banuelos Estrada (Executive Director)
- Jimmy K Plouff (Logistics Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vallarta Cares Inc is organized exclusively for charitable and humanitarian purposes to improve the quality of life for vulnerable individuals and families in Puerto Vallarta and surrounding areas of Jalisco, Mexico. The organization provides food assistance, clean water support, health and dental services, disaster relief, educational assistance, and community empowerment programs to individuals in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Vallarta Cares Inc provided food assistance, clean water support, health and dental services, and disaster relief to vulnerable individuals and families in Puerto Vallarta and surrounding communities in Jalisco, Mexico. Through partnerships with trusted local organizations, funds were directed toward direct program services that addressed food insecurity, medical needs, and emergency response efforts. We have provided over 560,000 meals, provided 190,000 food packages, and provided health services and dental services to people in most need.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 12%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 81.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 174.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $192K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.