Alzheimers Tennessee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621206312
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8655446288
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alzheimer's Disease
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,290,285
- Expenses
- $1,955,780
- Assets
- $2,070,381
- Liabilities
- $582,517
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
People named in this filing
- JANICE WADE-WHITEHEAD (CEOPRESIDENT NON VOTING)
- NYDA BROOK (BOARD MEMBER)
- RON SHERRILL (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Alzheimers Tennessee mission is to serve those facing alzheimers disease and related dementias, to promote brain health through education, and to champion global research, prevention and treatment efforts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outreach/pr/communications alheimers Tennessee creates awareness regarding the scope and impact of alzheimers disease and related dementias on families. Alzheimers Tennessee also creates opportunities for engagement and involvement to support the mission, to serve those facing alzheimers disease and related dementias, to promote brain health, and to champion prevention and treatment efforts. Outreach communication includes speakers bureau, direct mail, engagement with providers of services, community awareness opportunities, community service partners and website, facebook, podcast and other virtual media connection encouraging the community to mobolize to make a difference in the lives of those living with dementia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.