Academy of General Dentistry

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
366107533
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3124404300
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,439,131
Expenses
$14,605,206
Assets
$48,448,289
Liabilities
$7,703,912

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

34 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR CHETHAN CHETTY (PRESIDENT)
  • DR MARC WOROB (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • DR GEORGE SCHMIDT (VICE PRESIDENT THRU 11/25)
  • DR KIMBERLY WRIGHT (VICE PRESIDENT AFTER 11/25)
  • DANIEL BUKSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MAT KREMKE (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DANIEL BUKSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $320,851 total reported compensation
  • CAMERON HAWKINS (VP OF FINANCE): $236,004 total reported compensation
  • MAT KREMKE (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $229,198 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advancing general dentistry and oral health through quality continuing education and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provides members with various benefits, including ce tracking, acceptance of agd board licensure transcripts, advising members on managed care and coding and reimbursement issues, and a superior professional network and patient referral program.offers recognized achievement-based designations in general dentistry, the fellowship and mastership awards. More than 18,995 fellowship and 3,981 mastership awards have been earned. The fellowship exam, taken by 217 members in 2025, is one of the three required steps toward achieving the fellowship award and includes material from all dental disciplines. 75 members took the mastership exam.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 27.1%; rating input score 27; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 73.1%; rating input score 73; 11th 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: 5.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.32; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 19 of 26 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $321K · 34 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
  • Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.