American Dental Therapy Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464325289
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 3057998012
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,172
- Expenses
- $155,295
- Assets
- $5,617
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRISTINA BOWERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KARI ANN KUNTZELMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CRISTINA BOWERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KARI ANN KUNTZELMAN (PRESIDENT)
- ANNA DEGRAFFENREID (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to ensure that all americans have access to high-quality oral health care. Founded in 2006, the american dental therapy association (adta) is the national professional society for dental therapists. Each year, adta supports dental therapists in providing vital oral health care to hundreds of thousands of americans. We educate the public about the value of dental therapists, create educational and career advancement opportunities for dental therapists, and support educational institutions in developing superior dental therapy programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, the american dental therapy association (adta) continued to advance its mission of expanding access to oral healthcare and supporting the dental therapy profession through education, collaboration, and advocacy. We hosted the adta annual conference in orlando, Florida, bringing together nearly 100 dental therapy advocates, dental therapists, dentists, and other stakeholders from Florida and surrounding states. The event focused on increasing access to care through the utilization and expansion of dental therapists.learning management system (lms) development: launched a continuing education (cq) lms to host professional development content.established a monthly webinar program, free for adta members and at a nominal fee for non-members.integrated annual conference programs (up to two years of content) for ongoing professional access.sponsorship and revenue opportunities: developed a structured sponsorship framework to support educational offerings, events, and member programming.national dental therapy compensation survey: designed and initiated a nationwide compensation survey to collect data on dental therapist employment, wages, and benefits across the U.S.educational surveys: developed and distributed 1 of 3 planned surveys on minimally invasive dentistry (mid) and medical management of caries (mmc). This was prompted by dental therapists' verbal testimony indicating that, although they were taught mid and mmc in dental therapy programs, many are not supported by supervising dentists to apply these approaches in practice. The survey aims to assess education and practical implementation across programs.diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives: hosted a dei-focused webinar for the board of directors led by dr. Eleanor fleming, advancing dialogue on equity and representation within the dental therapy profession.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
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: -18.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -117.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.