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FORTALEZA INC

EIN 85-2941202 LOWELL, MA

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Revenue 2025
$232,835
Expenses 2025
$229,610

Program services were 50.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1200
Street
327 GORHAM ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Fortaleza is an advocacy group working to ensure educational equality for Latino students grades K-12 in the Lowell Public School System. The group was formed in Lowell, Massachusetts in 2017 by parents, community members, and faith leaders. Fortaleza's purpose is to advocate for the removal of structural inequities and barriers impacting the education of Latino students and to advocate for the elimination of Latino education opportunity gaps.

  • Advocacy for the removal of structural inequities and barriers impacting the education of Latino students and for the elimination of Latino education opportunity gaps to ensure educational equality for Latino students grades K-12 in the Lowell Public School System.

    Expenses $115,668 · Grants $20,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Vladimir Saldana

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Rosa Segarra-Morales

    Clerk

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Ana Duprey Santiago

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Denise Brito

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Meghan Dinis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rafael Svelti

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Omayra L Marcano

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Milka Ferreras

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eddie Tapia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cecilio Hernandez

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $89,387
    From this org
    $72,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,079
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $232,835
    Expenses
    $229,610
    Contributions
    $229,570
    Grants paid
    $20,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $329,883
    Expenses
    $150,419
    Contributions
    $327,981
    Grants paid
    $12,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $113,069
    Expenses
    $90,787
    Contributions
    $116,559
    Grants paid
    $8,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $108,785
    Expenses
    $33,166
    Contributions
    $108,141
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $103,705
    Expenses
    $600
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,405

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Cecilio Hernandez
Mailing address
C/O MAYTE RAMOS 16 JACKSON STREETLOWELL MA 01852

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.