Alabama Game Changers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472560196
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hoover, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2053642347
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Specifically Named Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,110,438
- Expenses
- $2,459,026
- Assets
- $54,540
- Liabilities
- $425,796
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Denton (President & Medical Director)
- Shannon Weaver (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Dianne Matheson (Director)
- Anna Comer (Director)
- Fran Spina (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The non-profit Alabama Game Changers (AGC) was created in 2014 to help merge the medical and educational communities together with respect to helping dyslexic children in Alabama. The initial focus was on assessment with early accurate diagnoses and advocacy. In 2020, Alabama
What it reported doing in 2024
Evaluations - Alabama Game Changers (AGC) can administer evaluations to diagnose dyslexia and dyscalculia. Evaluations can vary depending on the age of the child and the complexity of areas of concern. We can evaluate as young as four with a preliteracy evaluation. We can evaluate as old as twenty one with a college evaluation. In between those ages, we have a variety of evaluations which range from a two hour evaluation to a two day evaluation. Evaluations are options for parents to choose and range based on initial findings at a clients first visit in our medical clinic.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.81; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.9% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.