Voces Y Manos Por El Derecho a La Salud
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452509501
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8187306996
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $317,528
- Expenses
- $297,135
- Assets
- $89,106
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL BAKAL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL BAKAL (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW CARMONA (TREASURER)
- KIMBERLY VINALL (SECRETARY)
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
To raise funds to pay for grantee activities taking place in and around Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Activities include agriculture, water, education, and health-related activities to improve the wellbeing of the Indigenous Maya-Achi people of that area.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization reached 375 Indigenous Maya-Achi farming families (approximately 1,875 men, women, and children) with critical sustainable agriculture related activities. This included building 22 greenhouses, distributing 30,000 pounds of organic fertilizer, vaccinating 900 cows and horses against disease, vaccinating 10,000 chicken and other poultry against disease, delivering 3,000 pounds of corn and bean seeds to recuperate the milpa system, planting 7,500 forest trees, planting 1,875 fruit trees, delivering vegetable seeds to each of 375 families to start their own vegetable gardens, and carrying out continuous technical assistance visits to each of 375 families throughout the year, typically once every two months. The organization also carried out 6 workshops for up to 250 farmer beneficiaries on soil and water conservation. During this year, we also started working with primary schools. We reached 250 students and 17 teachers at 5 primary schools in the area. This work included working with teachers and students on curriculum aimed at promoting agroecology at a young age, and building school gardens at each school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $267K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.