American Association for Dental Oral and Craniofacial Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541790185
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035480066
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,622,891
- Expenses
- $2,390,672
- Assets
- $11,079,556
- Liabilities
- $1,599,906
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EFFIE IOANNIDOU (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER WEBSTER-CYRIAQUE (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- NISHA D'SILVA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JANE WEINTRAUB (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- ALEXANDRE VIEIRA (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTOPHER FOX (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER FOX (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $570,837 total reported compensation
- J DENISE STRESZOFF (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $292,382 total reported compensation
- L PETER QUINLIVAN II (CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER): $279,594 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Drive dental, oral, and craniofacial research to advance health and well-being.
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual meeting and symposia: relates to the activities of the annual spring and fall meetings. The related registration revenue and expenses are recorded in the association's financial statements. Joint meetings are generally held every other year with iadr. A joint meeting was held in 2024. During years when the annual spring meeting is held jointly with the iadr, the association receives its share of the meeting surplus in the form of division, meeting share and meeting dividend income.
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 86% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.16 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: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.63; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $571K · 25 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.