American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262615612
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Lisle, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6306899875
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $414,963
- Expenses
- $460,232
- Assets
- $1,046,978
- Liabilities
- $159,560
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DON FARQUHAR DDS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD DUNN DDS (PRESIDENT)
- HARMEET CHIANG DDS (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
Highest reported compensation
- RICHARD DUNN DDS (PRESIDENT): $18,310 total reported compensation
- HARMEET CHIANG DDS (PRESIDENT-ELECT): $3,310 total reported compensation
- IMRAN PATEL DDS (DIRECTOR): $3,310 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Certification examination for dentists treating sleep apnea and snoring
What it reported doing in 2025
Administered certificate exams in the field of dental sleep medicine.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -10.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $212K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.