Combinedbrain Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831825692
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6152898216
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neurology, Neuroscience
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,195,476
- Expenses
- $1,298,565
- Assets
- $631,993
- Liabilities
- $212,831
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERRY JO BICHELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- TERRY JO BICHELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $66,667 total reported compensation
- TAYLOR MORRIS (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $60,008 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The consortium for outcome measures and biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders is a non-profit organization devoted to speeding the path to clinical treatments for people with rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders by pooling efforts, studies, and data.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rent a neuroscientist: to respond to the pab request for help with strategic research plans, combinedbrain hires post-doctoral fellows, and student interns. These teams staff the rent-a-brain program, which assists with the roadshow, but primarily serves as part-time scientific officers for member pags. When requested, these teams review the landscape of drug development for a given disorder in an objective and economical way, resulting in a series of recommendations for moving as fast as possible from diagnosis to an fda-approved drug. The rent-a-brain teams also assist pags with grant applications, grant reviews, literature summaries, disease concept studies, and manuscript preparation. Renta-brain activities vary widely, as demanded by the pags and advisory boards. For example, one team has prepared scientific rationale for adding member disorders to diagnostic microarrays, another has prepared applications for icd-10 codes, and another has drafted a survey of toileting abilities to be piloted across neurodevelopmental disorders, amongst many other projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $107.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.