Dad Guild Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833889519
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Burlington, VT, USA
Phone
8023184231
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Men's Service Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$382,891
Expenses
$360,382
Assets
$83,227
Liabilities
$3,283

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nicholas Kramer (Board President)
  • Geoffrey Keegan Albaugh (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Geoffrey Keegan Albaugh (Executive Director): $82,455 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Dad Guilds mission is to support and empower fathers by offering opportunities for connection education and community engagement. The organization offers programs that support the mental health of fathers foster relationships between dads and their kids provides educational activities that improve parenting confidence and facilitates whole family experiences that lead to positive health outcomes.

What it reported doing in 2024

Fatherhood Peer Support - Dad Guild is home to a growing peer network of over 2,000 dads across the state of Vermont. The organization follows best practices of engaging men by meeting them where they are at utilizing peer-facilitated casual environments. A wide range of activities are offered that speak to a variety of interests and passions and are offered at different days and times including weekends and evenings when organizations typically do not offer services. Programming is offered with the intention of increasing the number of social connections dads have and increasing the number of people dads can turn to when they are looking for support. This has become increasingly concerning with well-documented research that highlights the male loneliness epidemic. Regular activities offered include virtual check-ins drop-in basketball New Dad Cohorts board game nights Dungeons & Dragons meetups campfires and several different virtual platforms ex. private Facebook group Discord community private Subreddit. This year in-person programs began expanding into additional regions across the state. Data gathered from this years annual survey found that dads who participate in programs experience a significant increase in the number of social connections they have and an increase in the number of people they can turn to for support when needed. This program served approximately 237 unique fathers over the course of the 24-25 fiscal year not including the number of dads who connected with one another through the organizations virtual platforms.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.8%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 57.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.8% of revenue deployed · 66.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $239K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.