Louisiana · Nonprofit
LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION
LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,141 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($16,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $768k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $475k
What La Mision Encontrandome Con Cristo Guatemala Mission does
Mission
Encountering christ through our poor brothers and sisters in guatemala. Fostering a missionary spirit by going to the mission in guatemala and working in communities, institutions, orphanages, abandoned homes for the elderly, and homes for abused young people. To share the love of god through the simple acts of cleaning, building, teaching, playing, praying, and worshipping.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mission program: the organization works in a particular village in guatemala for 2 to 3 years, providing services such as fresh water systems, solar powered led lighting, wood burning stoves, and repairs to schools and churches. Approximately 55 missionaries from the states each pay their own way and go to guatemala on the mission to work in these villages. All money raised through donations and fundraisers is used to purchase supplies for the projects in the villages and to purchase house wares and dry goods such as beans, corn, rice that are given to the people of the village before we leave guatemala each year.
$115,873 spent26% of program spendingScholarship program: education is one of the surest ways out of poverty and the organization sees this as another avenue to help the poor in guatemala. The organization pays students' tuition for a year of education, provided the students maintain a certain gpa. This program started out with only one student. The number of students in the program continues to grow each year. Three different levels of education are supported through our scholarship program; high school, trade school, and college. We also assist with their living expenses while attending school if they have to travel outside of the city where they live. Students are required to put in two hundred hours of community service in their local communities, including working with the mission group during the annual mission trip. Our coordinator in guatemala tracks and monitors the students' grades, service hours, and expenses. To keep up with the increased demand of the scholarship program, a new fundraising program was started in 2010. The organization started a wholly owned subsidiary, guatemala mission coffee, llc. This company buys guatemalan coffee from a company in guatemala to help support their local economy. The…
$95,573 spent21% of program spendingDonations: the organization gives monetary donations to support the work of other organizations int he villages of guatemala, including an orphanage, hogar nuestra se ora de los remedios, a home for abused and neglected girls, and to the congregation of nuns that support this orphanage, congregation de marta y maria, in jalapa, guatemala. We also support some of the local dioceses in these poor areas, such as the diocese of jalapa, guatemala and the diocese of alta verapaz, guatemala.
$236,098 spentof which $236,098 as grants53% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $447,544.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $155k to $476k (+207%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Fr Robert Cruz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $38 → $17k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Guatemala Mission Coffee LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION?
- LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,141 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($16,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,141 in grants to LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA MISION ENCONTRANDOME CON CRISTO GUATEMALA MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing