Workforce Solutions for South Texas
Legal name: Workforce Solutions For South Texas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742821303
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Laredo, TX, United States
- Phone
- 9567220546
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,743,919
- Expenses
- $26,705,421
- Assets
- $1,755,575
- Liabilities
- $1,769,640
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Rogelio Trevino (ExecutiveDirector): $169,068 total reported compensation
- Sandra R Barerra (Deputy Director): $142,965 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Workforce Solutions for South Texas builds a workforce system that supports economic development and prepares the workforce to compete in a changing global economy, serving citizens and businesses in Jim Hogg, Webb, and Zapata Counties. Workforce Solutions for South Texas is a local organization focused on increasing our community’s economic development by providing resource for employers and employees. Our goals include building our area workforce and training individuals to be successfully employed. Workforce Solutions for South Texas offers a broad range of programs and services to support the citizens and businesses of Jim Hogg, Webb and Zapata Counties. We provide assistance to job seekers as well as employer-focused objectives, including: Workplace and continuing education programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program assist needy families with children so that children can be cared for in their own homes to reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage to reduce and prevent out-of- wedlock pregnancies and to encourage the information and maintenance of two-parent families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $26.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 27 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.