Breakthrough Deaf Advocacy Plus Independent Living

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920483969
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2158828128
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$8,603
Assets
$12,568
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Dennis Hart (Instructor)
  • Michael A Gallagher (Board Member)
  • Harry Barnum (Co-Founder)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Breakthrough: Deaf Advocacy Plus Independent Living Center strives for inclusivity of Deaf consumers under effective communication required in American Disability Act Title II regulations in a consumer-run facility serving individuals and collective, people with disabilities, as everybody works toward establishing further civil rights and equity for all people under the A.D.A.

What it reported doing in 2025

Opened Teach Me English Through A.S.L. for Deaf Adults Literacy in September 2024 Mentioned in Scranton News about Act 57, and our stance on making that bill more stricter and hold interpreter agencies responsible Assisted over 80 Deaf adults struggling with human services and providing them excellent services in employment, housing, legal issues, food, finance, and food banks. Advocated for Deaf people and investigates medical issues like Virtual Relay Interpreters vs. In Person Interpreters, work with Deaf clients filing complaints in Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Partnered with Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Black Deaf Advocates, Disability Rights Network, Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University, Philadelphia Audism Project, and Mayor's Office Commission on People With Disability.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.