Alliance of Disability Advocates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562086784
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, United States
- Phone
- 919-833-1117
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,980,398
- Expenses
- $1,986,977
- Assets
- $539,965
- Liabilities
- $398,707
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- COREY MCKITTRICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- COREY MCKITTRICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $78,318 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
People with disabilities deserve equal opportunities and are the best experts at determining what’s best for them. Empower individuals with disabilities to thrive in communities of their choice by creating opportunities for inclusivity and accessibility. Systemic cross-disability advocacy efforts are needed to ensure that people with disabilities benefit from all that society has to offer. There should be no barriers to independence, including architectural, communication, and attitudinal barriers. The organizations best suited to support and assist individuals with disabilities ARE governed and operated by individuals with disabilities. Leadership for independent living and disability rights is vested in individuals with disabilities (not...
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide individual and systems advocacy, information and referrals for full inclusion in society, independent living skills training, and community inclusion.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $921.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -0.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.