Alliance for Voice Airway and Swallowing Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991886671
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Watertown, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7742779827
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ear and Throat Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,207
- Expenses
- $51,550
- Assets
- $162,857
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREG DION MD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW NAUNHEIM MD (TREASURER)
- GREG DION MD (PRESIDENT)
- AMANDA GILLESPIE PHD (CLERK)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Avase promotes research, education, and awareness of voice, airway, and swallowing disorders; provides support, resources, and advocacy for individuals affected by these disorders; and collaborates with medical professionals, researchers, and organizations to advance knowledge and treatment in the field primarily through its annual multidisciplinary educational conference for speech-language pathologists and laryngologists.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual fall voice educational conference for voice, airway, and swallowing clinicians (slps and laryngologists) - multidisciplinary education, awards/scholarships to attendees, and speaker programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.16; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 27% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.