Cancer Advocacy Group of Louisiana Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844307155
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Metairie, LA, USA
Phone
5045088900
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$647,640
Expenses
$622,720
Assets
$345,287
Liabilities
$56

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICH MAUTI (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CHADWICK LANDRY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHADWICK LANDRY (PRESIDENT): $105,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cancer advocacy group of Louisiana, inc. Is a Louisiana non-profit 501(c)(4) corporation organized and operated to advocate for legislation and administration regulations in the state of Louisiana that promote, support, and facilitate cancer research and education as well as the well-being and care of cancer patients, survivors, and their families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Cancer advocacy group of Louisiana (cagla) offers healthcare companies, doctors, philanthropists, and cancer survivors engaged in the fight against cancer the opportunity to connect with community and state leaders to advocate for policies that improve the lives of cancer patients across Louisiana. Over the past 5 state legislative sessions cagla was instrumental in the passing of major bills (listed below) that benefit cancer patients being treated in Louisiana:1. Senate bill (sb) 84 - genomic testing for cancer mutations2. Senate bill (sb) 119 - breast cancer screenings3. Senate bill (sb) 204 - precision medicine4. Senate bill (sb) 118 - biomarker testing5. Senate bill (sb) 146 - precision medicine6. Senate bill (sb) 154 - nicu biomarker testing7. House bill (hb) 435 - car-t treatments8. Senate bill (sb) 200 - cancer screening9. House bill (hb) 578 - smoking cessation10. House bill (hb) 508 - provides relative to medical and surgical treatments of cancer passed in 202311. House bill (hb) 896 - creates the Louisiana remote patient monitoring program law passed in 2024

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 49.4%; rating input score 49; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $621K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.