Voices College-Bound Language Academies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204741060
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4087911609
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,020,439
- Expenses
- $33,366,254
- Assets
- $42,997,612
- Liabilities
- $25,614,103
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALDO RAMIREZ (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ALDO RAMIREZ (PRESIDENT/CEO): $346,425 total reported compensation
- NATHAN JONES (SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST): $185,903 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH AGUILAR (CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER): $179,331 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Voices College-Bound Language Academies prepares every student for higher education and life through an academically rigorous dual-language program that develops multilingual scholars, critical thinkers, and empowered community builders.
What it reported doing in 2024
A charter management organization providing educational opportunities to the surrounding community. Voices college-bound language academies provides a rigorous college-prep k-8 program that teaches students english and spanish and builds on core elements of their identity. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, voices academy served 1,370 students and had 175 instructional days.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 78% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $2,662.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.1M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.