Best Day Ever Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811358629
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3177531661
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nerve, Muscle and Bone Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,542
- Expenses
- $160,174
- Assets
- $34,929
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura McLinn MS Ed (President)
People named in this filing
- Kerstan Sexton Esq (Secretary)
- Linda Godwin (Treasurer)
- Laura McLinn MS Ed (President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support individuals and families affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other rare diseases through advocacy, education, community programming, and quality-of-life initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service Accomplishment - Living Our Best Lives with Duchenne -The organization operated its Living Our Best Lives with Duchenne program to support individuals and families affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy through advocacy, education, direct support, community engagement, and quality of life initiatives. Program activities included educational outreach, conference participation, family support, awareness activities, newly diagnosed family Zoom support sessions, creative programming, and meaningful experiences designed to help individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy live their best lives. The organization provided free digital art classes for individuals living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and their siblings. These classes encouraged creativity, social connection, emotional support, and inclusive participation. The organization also provided direct support and guidance related to Medicaid waiver resources and services. In addition, the organization provided support to families needing accessibility related items and resources for their homes to improve safety, mobility, comfort, and quality of life. In line with the organization's charitable mission, support was not limited to families affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The organization also supported families living with other rare and complex medical conditions. The program benefited individuals diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other rare and complex medical conditions, as well as caregivers, siblings, and family members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
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: 12.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 69.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 100.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.